Innovative Strategies of the Turkestan Music and Drama Theater

Abstract

The general theme of the international round table “Innovative and multimedia research in modern theater art”, organized by the departments of theater studies and scenography of T. K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts, the main topic of which was the resonant premiere of the play Borte by Dulat Issabekov, which raised a wide range of ideas and topical issues. The purpose of this event was to comprehend the problems of innovations in the Kazakh theater in the era of digital technologies. The discussion was attended by a director of the Turkestan Music and Drama Theater Ainur Kopbassarova, a stage director Carlo Shakkaluga, prominent theatrical figures of the republic, directors, heads of regional theaters, actors, set designers, teachers, students of the academy and the capital's university of arts. The methodology basis in the discussion of innovative events taking place in the Kazakh theater were empirical, general scientific and private scientific methods of understanding new approaches in work on a production of a play, on the example of the performance of “Borte”. The study underwent cardinal changes in the theater's performance and production policy, starting with selection of actors who were invited from different theaters of Kazakhstan, to introduction of expensive innovative technical stage equipment. As a result of discussing the problems of introducing innovations in the Kazakh theater, a number of objective constraining factors were identified, such as obsolete technical equipment and stage machinery, etc. Particular attention was paid to the issues of profitability of theatrical production, adaptation methods and operation of specialized technical devices, fundamentally new approaches in selection of actors for the role. During the discussion of the principles of organizing work on the release of a new performance, it was noted that leadership of the Turkestan Theater had successfully introduced new generation technologies in the shortest possible time. Moreover, a fundamentally new algorithm for operation of the stage part of the theater was developed, an extraordinary model for managing production workshops of the theater, technical and technological spectrum of combining innovative methods and techniques in the space of one performance has been expanded.