Stage-design

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Teatras; Menas; Scenografija; Scenografai; Scenos menininkai; Režisieriai; Lithuania; Theater; Art; Scenography; Scenographers; Stage artists; Directors.

ENThe first years and the entire first decade after the war confirmed that all areas of theater art had been forcefully occupied by the requirements of social realism. A mere glimpse at the repertoire or a look at the music and stage design used at that time was enough to see that the theater had been absorbed by the spirit of obedience to those Soviet requirements. The first steps towards this situation were taken by theater artists in the first year of Soviet occupation, 1940. When Germans occupied Lithuania during the war, part of the old repertoire returned to the stage, yet the enthusiasm about discoveries made in the 1930s had faded; political, moral and material crises triggered the usage of the basic realistic stage view in which decorations and props played a larger role. These circumstances were in part due to the poverty the theaters suffered at the time. [Extract, p. 152]