DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2021-1-122-137

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Aleksey I. Burachenko

Cand. Sc. in Culturology, Assistant Professor of Department of Culturology, Philosophy and Art Studies
Kemerovo State Institute of Culture
Kemerovo, Russia

Online theatre performance: Attempt of the typological analysis

Abstract

During the period of isolation, several curious phenomena arose in artistic culture. One of them is an online performance. They claim to be a mass form of actual theatre experience. The article attempts to clarify various aspects of of this phenomenon. “Net Theatre” is connected with the artistic processes actual in our time. It also reveals the results of theatre evolution experience in various “technical” spheres: cinema, television, the Internet. The article deals with a precedent performance. Itproduced a resonance in the professional community. Reflection on the reactions to this performance reveals several problems which are quite commonfor modern theatre communication. An attempt to search for the structural features of this communication leads to the modeling of a multi-level structure. Its implementation requires special skills from the creators of such a media product. The first level is social, it only conditionally marks the actor and the viewer as potential participants of the future interaction. The second level is anartistic one. – It requires adherence to a certain convention, where the actor presents some character, and the viewer perceives him as a real subject. At the performative level, During the period of isolation, several curious phenomena arose in artistic culture. One of them is an online performance. They claim to be a mass form of actual theatre experience. The article attempts to clarify various aspects of of this phenomenon. “Net Theatre” is connected with the artistic processes actual in our time. It also reveals the results of theatre evolution experience in various “technical” spheres: cinema, television, the Internet. The article deals with a precedent performance. Itproduced a resonance in the professional community. Reflection on the reactions to this performance reveals several problems which are quite commonfor modern theatre communication. An attempt to search for the structural features of this communication leads to the modeling of a multi-level structure. Its implementation requires special skills from the creators of such a media product. The first level is social, it only conditionally marks the actor and the viewer as potential participants of the future interaction. The second level is anartistic one. – It requires adherence to a certain convention, where the actor presents some character, and the viewer perceives him as a real subject. At the performative level,

Keywords

online performance, artistic communication, performer, audience, participation

For citation

Burachenko A. I. Online theatre performance: Attempt of the typological analysis. In: Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema. Music. 2021, no. 1, pp. 122–137.

DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2021-1-122-137

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Received: 28.12.2020

Accepted: 14.02.2021