Vladimir Nabokov and theater (original) (raw)

his essay focuses on the problems encountered by the theatre when staging Nabokov's novels and short stories in Russia and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The staging of any text is an autonomous interpretation of that text. But at the same time, the script of the theatrical performance, which is an independent work of art in and of itself, is only one of the elements of the whole mise en scene. The process of interpreting a text for the stage begins with the preparation of the adaptation; however, all of the performative elements contribute to its completion: the mise en scene, style of acting, audio-visual layer of the performance, spatial structure, use of other genres, language of scenic stylization, scenery (costumes, stage design, props), plasticity of the performance, sound and lighting effects.