Концепция театральной реальности Андрия Жолдака (на примере спектаклей «Zholdak Dreams: похитители чувств» и «По ту сторону занавеса»)

Abstract

The article presents a formulation of the aesthetic principles in the work of Ukrainian film producer Andriy Zholdak by the example of two productions made in St. Petersburg — “Zholdak Dreams: Abductors of Feelings” and “Beyond the Curtains.” Stemming from historical premises of the phenomenon of theatricality and the conceptions of the structure of the theatrical mask expounded by the artist, the author analyzes the film producer’s actable approach to performance of a dramatic text, as well as the artistic techniques of transposition of the subjectivity of perception in the capacity of a means of formation of the stage image of the objective world. When turning to the techniques of the theatrical masque, the author researches the nature of symbiotic relations of the actor and his or her role existing in the determined stage reality of Zholdak, who is able to connect within a single spatial field the temporal strata of the text, the performer and the audience. The producer chooses the associative type of montage of episodes for the creation of the overall visual picture out of cinematographic, visual, musical and plastic means of expression. Analysis of the crucial moments of the productions helps organize the structure of the conceptual thinking of the artist, who asserts the relationship between the subjectivity of theater and the objectivity of reality as the ambivalence of the form of being. The theatrical world of Zholdak is characterized for a surrealistic principle of producing the theatrical performances, a rejection of representation and turning to deconstruction of the matrix of the theatrical play with a subsequent manifestation of its alternate reality on stage.