ABSTRACT
It has been over half a century since the founding fathers of theatre directing left the stage. Obviously, their discoveries in the area of a scenic language seem dated now and interesting only for theatre historians. What is far worse is that their titanic work and the richest experience in physical actor training, teaching external technique and researching the laws of expressiveness have also disappeared somewhere. The repeated transfer of ideas, methods, means and exercises from the teachers to pupils, then from pupils to their pupils, and recently – from the second and third generations of the ‘pupils of pupils’ to the fourth and even fifth quite seriously distorted the initial ideas. Many of them were simply lost along the way. Let’s not look for the reasons: we have already named many of them. What is important is that in many aspects of theatre culture we have found ourselves back at the end of nineteenth century.
