article reveals essence of concept of of by famous Ukrainian theater teacher Roman Cherkashin in its manual Artistic expression on stage. Duality of Cherkashin’s understanding of this phenomenon is indicated. author approached guide to interpretation of as hidden content. We pose problem of understanding concepts of subtext and Among Ukrainian theater theorists concept of saw M. Karasev, in his book Stanislavsky and speech (the Illustrated – basic premise of converting on role of verbal action) and R. Cherkashin at work expression on stage ( Text and subtext). Both Ukrainian authors followed teachings of and considered implication from perspective of founder of theater pedagogy. For Cherkashyn, psychological) – vision shaped imagination. Contractor literary for a live verbal action required: tie words of with their imaginative visions of imagination, bringing awareness of their meaning, which will further language (intonation) and heard it to listener. of words – – is a combination of (communication by Cherkashyn) of his vision shaped by imagination. This is what is meant by inner meaning of words both theorist, then when our time is treated only as hidden of words, where domestic is not figurative and emotional idea, vision, and effective, meaningful semantic expression Essentially purpose word, its hidden or direct opposite meaning. In this case Cherkashin says same illustrated subtext Stanislavsky. He, like Stanislavsky, is in of awareness, decoding, interpretation of word, i.e. phase of work on short, role. Cherkashyn confirms this: The psychological wider implication content vocabulary words and phrases. Unraveling feel and identify according to of artwork inside its – main creative task of actor and director. on interpretation of theatrical still not conscious and not resolved apparent contradiction that appears following questions (direct answer to which we are still nowhere and no one found): Yet what is subtext?. Is it 1) is that (internal installation, of words and our attitude, our experiences, visions, everything we decipher and realize on text, all evokes in our minds before their deliverance ) or 2) tone, expression that sounds? Finally, to understand this and to clarify understanding of concept of theatrical is main objective of our study. We see no apparent awareness of existing differences between literary overtones (overtones literary texts designed for reading and understanding when words expressed by letters, carry information, plot) and theater, stage, performing (text-cues for speech, hearing, verbal sound effect, their emotional and semantic expression). In our understanding of theatrical overtones – it is tone, sound, the true sounds of language. It seems appropriate to anything that is under text continue to call overtones and sound, word-effective, semantic, meaningful expression of essence of destination should be given to his words, updated term – subtext-tone. Thus, – essence of text, decoded, found mentally conscious sense opinions. A subtext, tone-intonation opinion expressed by statements. implication is always a tone for audience and skill of musician is in a report by subtext-tone listener. resulting vision, understanding and experiences are treated as subtext. But here inconsistency subjective experience of reality is further manifested in psychological implications of linguistic action. First, our attitude (subjective experience of reality) is not an additional manifestation and straight. Secondly, since implication of linguistic action, then, respectively, he already sounds (verbal action overtones). And implication that sounds, that's subtext-tone. Emotional attitude is a direct implication nature, not its essential properties. Our emotional attitude dictates tone of character, is a subtext-tone. We must talk about correct, exact expression of our emotional state (subtextthrough action), and in any case not intonation. You can not appeal to ephemeral tone, because you can not define, describe, mark (as in music notes) – it can only voice, play, repeat, never – to fix once and for all by certain laws, requirements, regulations. (Do not take into account rules of logical intonation, it is a so-called performing, artistic intonation.). Intonation mainly conducts search prettiness words, whereas most important is its emotional content of education effectiveness. So intonation – is someone correctly interpreting, fixation, and subsequently playing it is just copying.