Regional culture through the prism of theatrical practice: current approaches
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-7-99-112
Abstract
The theater space, which is sociocultural in terms of its existence and has a certain value for collective perception, has not lost its importance for the study of regional culture in Russia in the 21st century. The artistic representation of reality, its transformation into a semantic sign system of an epoch, region, and people, makes the theater an ideal object of cultural research. The specificity of the mobility of the regional theatrical environment, which ensures its vitality, and the possibilities of modern communication, allows the researcher to not only identify and show the features of regional culture reflected in theatrical art, but also to trace trends affecting the state of regional culture and society as a whole. The energy and mobility of regional theaters forces the researcher to expand the range of methods, not to limit himself to the analysis of ethnocultural features and regional identity, since we are talking about the spatial dimension of culture and socio-cultural dynamics. Understanding the connection between theatrical practice and the value orientations of society determines not only the external contours of culture, but also the layer of the human spiritual world, which allows modern researchers to most accurately characterize the value-semantic dominants of regional culture, which are embodied in the phenomenon of regional theater.
About the Author
K. S. Rybkin
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kirill S. Rybkin
27-4, Lomonosovsky Av., Moscow, 119991
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Rybkin K.S. Regional culture through the prism of theatrical practice: current approaches. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2025;(7):99-112. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-7-99-112
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