Experimental Theater of XX-XXI Centuries as a Public Speech Laboratory (Problem Statement)

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to create a history of the experimental theater of the 20th century , understood as a laboratory of public speech , as well as to identify the place of the experiments of the theater of the 19th-20th-21st centuries in Russia on the map of contemporary art . According to the concept of the materiality of the performance , which is created by performative means , the voice , performance space , presence , body , oral speech can be considered as a multimedia performance . Along with the methods of historical science necessary for the study of archival and published documentary evidence of experiments with public speech in the theater , the methods of the sociology of art , the history of ideas , and cultural history are used , which allow establishing links between the inventions of new techniques and methods in the art of the theater , the accompanying social and historical events and reveal the genealogy and history of techniques and methods .