Undoubtedly one of the most prominent and most important Russian directors of the past two decades, Yury Butusov here refers to several landmarks of his artistic trajectory, gradually revealing a sense of oeuvre, of a body of work connected by a distinctive worldview. Not all of his productions of exceptional significance are cited here, and Flight (2015), at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, not having found its rightful place here, appears separately at the end. This Conversation, while intentionally taking a wide perspective, nevertheless focuses on production details so as to foreground various artistic qualities that distinguish his approach. Butusov discusses at some length what constitutes his directorial method and methodology, stressing, above all, the primacy of creative freedom for his actors and himself from which emerge complex and highly charged theatre constructions. Butusov, who is against war as such, speaks of his position on the Russian-Ukrainian war, which led to his resignation in 2018 from the artistic directorship of the Lensoviet Theatre in St Petersburg. He became Principal Director of the Vakhtangov, alongside the acclaimed Rimas Tuminas, Artistic Director of this theatre. Tuminas resigned from his post in spring 2022. Butusov and his family left Russia for Paris, and Butusov resigned from the Vakhtangov in November 2022. His production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is to be premiered at the Russian- and Lithuanian-speaking Vilnius Old Theatre in September 2023. This conversation took place on 23 March and 27 April 2023 on Zoom, and was translated from the Russian and edited by Maria Shevtsova.

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在世界末日时代的对话中

毫无疑问，尤里·布图索夫是过去二十年最杰出、最重要的俄罗斯导演之一，他在这里提到了他艺术轨迹中的几个里程碑，逐渐流露出一种作品，由独特的世界观联系起来的一系列作品。这里并未引用他所有具有特殊意义的作品，并且航班（2015），在莫斯科瓦赫坦戈夫剧院，没有在这里找到它应有的位置，单独出现在结尾。这次对话虽然有意采取广泛的视角，但仍侧重于制作细节，以突出他的方法的各种艺术品质。布图索夫详细讨论了他的导演方法和方法论的构成，首先强调了他的演员和他本人的创作自由的首要性，从中出现了复杂且高度紧张的戏剧结构。反对战争的布图索夫谈到了他在俄罗斯-乌克兰战争中的立场，这导致他于 2018 年辞去圣彼得堡伦索维剧院艺术总监一职。他成为瓦赫坦戈夫剧院的首席导演，与该剧院广受赞誉的里马斯·图米纳斯 (Rimas Tuminas) 一起担任该剧院的艺术总监。图米纳斯于 2022 年春季辞去职务。布图索夫和家人离开俄罗斯前往巴黎，布图索夫于 2022 年 11 月辞去了瓦赫坦戈夫的职务。他制作的汤姆·斯托帕德 (Tom Stoppard) 的作品罗森克兰茨和吉尔登斯顿去世将于 2023 年 9 月在讲俄语和立陶宛语的维尔纽斯老剧院首演。这段对话于 2023 年 3 月 23 日至 4 月 27 日在 Zoom 上进行，由俄语翻译并由玛丽亚·舍夫佐娃 (Maria Shevtsova) 编辑。