Lietuvių dramos teatro kritika - tradicija ir novatoriškumas 1920-1940 metais

Abstract

In this paper author tries to detect the traces of ideas similar to The Great Theatre Reform (1887-1939) in the texts by Lithuanian theatre critics in the year 1920-1940. Theoreticians and practitioners of The Reform generated a conception of the theatre as an autonomous art form, deliberated from the other arts influence. This notion of the theatre in the reception of Lithuanian theatre critics appears to be controversial and on this basis becomes possible to separate them into two main groups: traditionalists (their ideals were referring to the XIX century theatre tradition with its emphasis on importance of the word on stage) and innovators (who claimed a legimacy for the idea of a director’s theatre menacing the dominant position of a dramaturgy in a performance).