Plot and chronotope in theatrical performance

The article is concerned with the issues of plot and chronotope of a theatrical performance, in which the plot is represented as a dynamic historical category in poetics of the theatrical performances. Morphological elements of plot building and interrelation between spatial and temporal elements, which make a narrative substance of the theatrical performance, are analyzed. The reasons of the artistic break between the plot of the theatrical performance script and the plot of its scenic realization are considered, and an attempt is made to determine the correlation between the game and narrative in the plot of the script and to reveal the interconnection of this dominant and the features of performance creating. For the first time, the attention of the authors is drawn to the theme of artistic space and time in the field of theatrical performances. In the article, the above mentioned issues are considered on the basis of the musical and poetic performance «Snowfall», fulfilled in the educational theater of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture in 2014.