Subjective religiosity in the Klim’s theatre
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2025-2-112-131
Abstract
The theatrical practice of Klim, a contemporary Russian director, contains a ritual practice that serves “subjective religiosity.” Using the work of ritual researchers who worked in parallel with the development of the line of returning the theater to its rituality in the European theatre, and later in the Russian one, we make an attempt to trace the change in attitude towards this rituality from the first theoretical reflections of Antonin Artaud to actual practice, the last and most accurate an example of which is the “zero ritual” developed by Klim. We show what religious motives and elements of ritual practices are included in the “zero ritual” and how this contributes to the implementation of “subjective religiosity” according to the stories of witnesses and participants of this ritual.
About the Author
M. A. Ezhova
Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria A. Ezhova, postgraduate student
23B, Novokuznetskaya St., Moscow, 11518
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Ezhova M.A. Subjective religiosity in the Klim’s theatre. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2025;(2):112-131. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2025-2-112-131
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