The crisis of the stage action and the director methodology of Lev Dodin

The term «action» is the main term of stage methodology. The whole defining a theatrical practice of the 20 century, «action» remains the main tool of the actor s and director s professions. At the same time, the concept of «action» is a powerful methodological problem, which causes today to be the most various, sometimes opposite attitudes, assessments and approaches. It is clear in general that the methodology of the stage action stands in a state of crisis now. The most balanced, serious and promising dialogue on the issue of «action» today offers us the practice of Lev Dodin. The article is devoted to the contribution that brings in the question of allowing «crisis actions» Lev Dodin director s methodology. The article is based on the books, published in the recent time by Lev Dodin, as well as in the recordings of rehearsals by Lev Dodin, which the author of the article was since 1997 regularly visiting the rehearsals at the Saint-Petersburg State Academic Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe.