Lietuvių folkloro teatrinės tradicijos XX a. mėgėjų teatre

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos teatro elementų apraiškos lietuvių folklore bei jų įtaka tautinės teatrinės kultūros formavimuisi. Siekiama nustatyti folkloro teatrinių tradicijų reikšmę XX a. antrosios pusės teatro mėgėjų kūrybai.

The ways of maturation of each national spiritual culture are unique and closely related to its history. The Lithuanian nation in all times and in all complex historical situations has remained true to creative aspirations. Creative thirst had been an everyday need in our peasant’s daily routine, as it transferred him to the imaginary life, full of goodness and beauty. When creating songs and performing them at work, ordinary man greatly facilitated the hard toil. However, creativity meant more than just a chance to escape bitter reality. By means of it, people expressed their dissatisfaction with the existing situation and sought more hopeful and beautiful life. The artistic activity of the past generations, imbued by moral values of the nation, its ideals and its wisdom, testified the inexhaustible spirit of social optimism. It was in the Lithuanian folklore that the first elements of the national theatre were born. In folk games and calendar rites, and primarily in Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras), we would find the elements of transformation; in them, improvisation, the contact between performers and audiences, and conflict and drama manifested themselves, and the drama of the folk wedding was developed. That was the theatrical basis which affected, preconditioned, and fed further stages of Lithuanian theatrical culture. [...]