Režisieriaus funkcijos XX a. pradžios lietuvių teatre
Director’s functions in the Lithuanian theatre of the early 20th century

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problems of director’s functions in the late period of the Lithuanian amateur theatre in the beginning of the 20th century when the first historical plays stimulated the director’s status in theatre groups and opened the space for solutions of the first elementary directional tasks. Three main lines of amateur direction – direction of stage effects, organization of stage design and working with actors – could be defined as new and complicated challenges for the Lithuanian theatre of the early 20th century. These challenges were met as a good chance to try to grow out of amateurishness and reach a certain professional competence. However, the press reflections on historical plays manifest distinctly the inability of the first Lithuanian directors to turn the stage development towards professionalism, the inability that revealed itself in the harsh caricaturization of the heroic Lithuania’s past in historical dramas. Not fully fulfilled directional tasks resulted in a clear perception of the crisis of the Lithuanian amateur theatre and inevitability of its re-organization.

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