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THEATRE STUDIESGvantsa Guliashvili,Shota Rustaveli Theatre and film Georgian stateuniversity,PHD student of cinema and television facultySupervisor: Aleksandre VakhtangovCHALLENGES AND PROBLEM OF THE MODERNGEORGIAN THEATREGeorgian theatre faced numerous problems and challengesin the past decade. Despite a big and interesting historicalheritage, Georgian Theatre had to overcome many difficulties.90s of XX century was generally very hard for the countryand especially for the theatre. Transformation and waking uptime has started from the end of 90s. Georgian Theatre is in theprocess of searching nowadays, as well as Georgian drama. Thegoal of the topic is to show the problems of modern GeorgianTheatre. Strong competition that is created by the television andcinematography requires a certain compromise from the theatredirectors. For attracting the spectators one has to foresee theirinterests to satisfy them. One of the most important problemsof the modern Georgian Theatre is a bounty of “box office”performances. The fact determines another problem – taste anddemand of the audience. This is one stretched chain, whichcreates a general picture.1. Georgian Theatre from soviet epoch as modern historicalheritage2. Georgian reality of 90s, last century that was directlyreflected on the development of theatre life3. The main problems in Georgian theatre existed in thepast decade4. Drama as the main support for the theatre art5. Features of modern Georgian drama247