Theater without Borders: To Raise the Question of Blurring the Line between Professional and Amateur Creativity

Abstract

Recently, the amateur theater movement, which seemed to have lost its significance three decades ago, is reviving and, moreover, transforming, now qualitatively different from the socio-cultural phenomenon that it was in the past. This paper examines the development of amateur creativity at the present stage. We will talk about private commercial theaters, amateur studios and laboratories, which over the past decade have not only gained wide popularity, but also, in the context of postmodern transformations, have become direct competitors to professional art, thereby blurring the boundaries between professional and amateur creativity. The functions of professional theaters, the tasks and problems that arise before them, have also affected the amateur art to the same extent. The author comes to the conclusion that the boundaries between professional and amateur theater are gradually blurring, which, in the near future, may lead to new global transformations in the field of theater culture.