Robert Sturua’s Georgian Shakespearian in XXI Century

Nowadays, the Georgian Theatre history is inconceivable without Shakespeare’s dramaturgy. Shakespeare is known in Georgia since the first half of nineteenth century and his popularity is directly connected with the rising of the Georgian theatre culture. At the same time, the classic play means to find in it the big problems, what is impossible to not cause the passions in viewer today. Shakespeare’s dramaturgy belongs to such number of classic work, what director might line up to the modern problems, in particular the talk is about Robert Sturua’s Georgian Shakespearian of XXI century. Joyful but in some point of view, cynical “Situation Comedy” “Twelfth Night or what you will “of Shakespeare staged on Rustaveli theatre had become the tragic farce in XXI century by the interpretation of Robert Sturua. Robert Sturua showed the plot to viewer with the different perspective. Unification of different theatre genre or direction in one play is characteristic for the directing language of Robert Sturua. In this staging you can recognize all genre starting from the middle century theatre: Liturgical drama, Miracle, Mystery, Farce, Pastoral, Commedia dell’arte, Characteristic slapstick... Genre intended eclecticism are bound as one whole in this play. Characteristic Drama and Irony of Robert Sturua coexists side by side in `Hamlet~ staged on Rustaveli Theater in 2002. Classic and farce style of staging replace one another. Heroes of the play had become the participants of tragic farce. There is no genre division in `Hamlet~. Here we simultaneously perceive everything – tragedy, psychological drama, farce, comedy and etc. In the play, each detail is processed with mathematical accuracy as it is characteristic for the theatre language of Robert Sturua. Each episode and stage is based on truth, for what, as if the genre eclecticism is tied as one whole composition.