물질적 상상력의 시학—에이문타스 네크로슈스의 셰익스피어 삼부작을 중심으로—

Abstract

I’d like to admit that we can not overlook Eimuntas Nekrosius’countribution, a theatre director of tiny country of Lithuania, to change worldtheatrical pivot from western European countries to eastern parts. One critic says "It is no exaggeration to say that it is the first event to watch Lithuanian theatre in eastern European theatre, particularly Nekrosius’ theatre. And especially his theatres on Shakespeare can be represented as a symbol of development of the theatre."He suggests new alternative way in theatre as having experiments on symbolic communion happened between the text and actors’ psychological visual exploration. He is highly acclaimed as a theatre director who founds new poetics of staging Chekhov and Shakespeare. In this study, I aim to analyze a variety of his theatrical images based on the phenomenology of material-imagination of Gaston Bachelard. Bachelard classifies the imagination in terms of distinct characteristics of poetry and painting, and regards that the imagination can be created by its various intrinsic images. In fact, what he points out as image of poetry and painting is very close concept to theatrical staging image, so I consider that it is appropriate method to use Bachelard’s theory to approach Nekrosius’ theatre. Before staging Shakespeare, Nekrosius has been though staging Checkhov, Gogol, Chingiz Aitmatov or etc. After then, he decided to undertake new expedition to stage Shakespeare’s texts. Basically I am going to look into the characteristics of mise-en-scene of Nekrosius in this paper, and in order to understand it, it is crucial to comprehend what he chose as a text to stage. That is why I am also going to look into the alteration of choosing a text before and after Shakespeare.