Music and Time Annotation << Back Save the Theater V.N. Tkachev, M.E. Dvornikova Theater is the most mature phase of evolution, consisting of a long morphological chain of spectacles – outdoors and in specially equipped facilities. The spectator-actors opposition was differentiated in a spatial variant: the spectator in a chair in inactivity mode, the actors on stage, depending on the plot, play a psychological drama or an energetic "action". The modern spectator, due to the general mobility of life, is inclined to observe spectacles in the active dynamics of a scenario production, provided, moreover, with scenery associated with the plot and enhancing its emotional impact. Theater fans are determined to constantly enhance the audiovisual and psychological effects on their receptors, which is achieved to a large extent by the synthesis of acting and stage entourage. The modern theater has practically exhausted the orthodox resources of the accompanying effects technology. And for the "advanced" theater-goer, classical performances seem "insipid". Therefore, in order to prolong the life of the theater and preserve interest in it, the founders are forced to look for new forms, even extravagant ones, in the scripts and techniques of staging the play. Keywords: Theater, technological evolution of spectacles, typology of forms of recreation, functional scheme of theater, scenery – stationary and mobile, transcendental means of emotional impact, theater as a form of social contacts. Pp. 39-46.