Robert Sturua’s Georgian Shakespearian (Part II) King Lear

Robert Sturua harmonically united different theatrical trends in the “King Lear”. The director gave a new sonorousness to his existing “theatre language”. To so called “imaginary theatre”, conditionality, “estrangement effect” and distancing attitude, theatricality, he added also psychological treatment of heroes . He put Shakespeare’s implication of the text in the foreground. The next to the tragic farce and tragicomically theatre, he let us deeply look into the inner Universe of human, his soul and showed us personal tragedy, disorganization and renaissance of person’s soul. The scenery which helped Sturua to fulfill his thoughts was the imitation of a theatre in the theatre.
Director raised the terrible results left by the despot and tyranny. Robert Sturua transferred essence ideology of Lear, so called “theatre of Lear”. Sturua modeled philosophical, poetic word of Shakespeare on the stage. He applied his usual scenic form to the essence of events in some episodes. Robert Sturua aggravated the horror of Universe presented on the stage by his directing method. He was leading the viewer to the bound of utter tensity by performing these terrible events on the stage. He reached this by using different theatre means through the blinding effect of searchlights (like lighting), imitating the deafening sounds of thunder-storm, coming from the depth of the scene with astonishing howling and etc. The Universe shown by Robert Sturua, wasn’t only the Lear’s Universe. This is existing Universe around us too. Exactly mirror reflection of audience-hall on the stage indicates it. Time and place aren’t confined in the play. What happened on the stage might be repeated in any time or space. Personage of the clown in Shakespeare’s play is important for Robert Sturua, because it helps the director to present his conception well. The clown doesn’t die in Shakespeare’s Lear. He disappears. Lear kills the clown in the play of Robert Sturua. First time, he unconsciously beats a knife to a clown. Only in last minutes, he realizes that by murdering a clown he kills himself. New plastics and layers of the director’s theatre language appeared in the “King Lear”. It was differed from the political theatre of Robert Sturua, new style of acting, psychological motions merged into its theatre stylistics and made performance stronger and warmer.