From Stage to Life: Creative and Social Adaptation through School Theater
The article centers round the issue of adaptation of senior schoolchildren to social environment with the help of art, theatrical one in particular. On the basis of the experience of 10th - 11th year schoolchildren of gimnasium No2 of the city of Vitebsk it is considered how through penetration into complicated literature material formation of the personality of the pupil takes place. The author analyzes the structure of the performances by the amateur school theater: «Christ landed in Garodnya» according to the novel by Vladimir Korotkevich and «Destroyed Nest» according to the play by Yanky Kupala. Both the performances are different approaches to the process of staging itself and are different according to the system of interaction of the performers. Both the performances were awarded Grand Prize (2012 and 2013) at the festivals of School Theater. Main issue for the author of the article was communicativity of contemporary scoolchildren and the ability to work within the team.