Postmodern way in the works of Oskaras Koršunovas

O.Korsunovas - young Lithuanian theatre director, who has succeeded in creating original theatrical style, which was defined by the critics as “O.Korsunovas theatre” or “O.Korsunovas method”. In this study author tries to trace the main features of O.Korsunovas directing style as well as influence of postmodern aesthetics. To understand fully the basic features of O.Korsunovas works it is helpful to look at the origins and tendencies of postmodernist theatre, where one can find similarities to O.Korsunovas style. His first works were based on the texts of Oberiu Group or Association for Real Art, the group of artists formed in Leningrad in 1926. Their works were a clear source of contemporary inspiration and helped O.Korsunovas to develop the theatrical mode of expression in which the various theatrical elements combine in new and different ways and none of them is subordinated to the others. In such a way “inner text” or visual dramaturgy arises. The theatre elements such as actors, stenography, music are not subordinated to the text in O.Korsunovas works. The form of expression is no longer controlled through textual or literary-dramaturgical premises. The correct or only interpretation no longer exists and the spectator is able to create the meaning itself. Also the visual in most of the O.Korsunovas works does not illustrate the textual and vice versa. It’s similar to the works of such postmodernist theatre directors as R.Wilson or R.Foreman. The modernist impulse toward the separation and fresh recombination of theatrical elements is here pushed to a far point. In his later theatre productions O.Korsunovas worked with more difficult dramaturgical texts. “P.S. Byla O.K.” is based on the experience of the generation, which has witnessed the fall of the system and experienced the change of values.[...]Vytauto Didžiojo universiteta