ABSTRACT
The director is the strong figure in the theatre. The main emphasis is put on theatrical effect, plot, and action. In theatres where scene designers are paramount the productions are converted into exhibitions of decorative canvases and picturesque costumes. Colours and lines create a feast for the eye and impose their supremacy on all aspects of the creative collective undertaking, they all come to serve the artist designer. The public, the director of the play, and the actors themselves fall prey to the enchantment and talent of the scene designer, and in their blindness they accept the foolish impositions which the painter is guilty of in relation to the playwright and his work, the actor and his art, indeed to the whole theatre itself. If no special play can be found for contemporary painter of extreme tastes, of a futurist slant, he will not hesitate arbitrarily and without rhyme or reason to convert Ostrovski, Shakespeare, Moliere and Goldoni into futurists.
