Ibsen in the Lithuanian theatre: attempts to interpret Cover Image

Ibsenas lietuvių teatro scenoje: bandymai interpretuoti
Ibsen in the Lithuanian theatre: attempts to interpret

Author(s): Audronė Girdzijauskaitė
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Psychology, Studies of Literature, Drama
Published by: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Keywords: dramaturgy; tradition; directorial concept; character; interpretation; dimension of time; symbolist drama; psychological theatre; atmosphere of the performance; scenic space;

Summary/Abstract: The history of the production of Henrik Ibsen’s plays in Lithuanian theatre is a very broad theme. This article presents just a short segment of it – four productions of “The Wild duck” and “John Gabriel Borkman”. The aspect of interpretation is topical in all periods of the directors’ theatre. It is important to stress that the directors of the analysed productions ( Juozas Monkevičius, Henrikas Vancevičius and Kazys Tumkevičius) were representatives of psychological and realistic theatre, and their approach while directing late plays of Ibsen, which are complicated and mixed from the point of view of style and genre, restricted their interpretational possibilities, and the free and creative interpretation often becomes only an attempt to interpreting.

  • Issue Year: 17/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 111-123
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Lithuanian