Robert Sturua Theater

Director Robert Sturua gained fame primarily as an interpreter of Shakespeare and Brecht. The key in his career can be called the play “Caucasian Cretaceous Circle”: the production became a real triumph of Sturua and brought him world fame. Olga Maltseva in her book chooses this point of the director’s creative biography as a starting point for studying his poetics. How is the Sturua Theater in terms of composition? What is the uniqueness of his artistic language? What is the role in his performances assigned to the viewer? And is Sturois"s creative method close to the Brecht Theater? The author of the monograph is looking for answers to these questions, attracting his own audience experience and sequentially analyzing the director’s staging in the Georgian State Theater named after Shota Rustaveli from the Caucasian Cretaceous Circle to Vano and Nico. Olga Maltseva is a doctor of art history, a leading researcher at the Russian Institute of History of Arts, professor of the Department of the Russian Theater of the Russian State Institute of Stage Arts, the author of works on the poetics of the theater of the second half of the 20th - early XXI centuries