Gruschezkiy Y. The director's creative searches of the Ukrainian Puppet theater in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

In this thesis firstly analyzed director's creative searches of the Puppet theatre of Ukraine in the last quarter of the twentieth century, defined by their influence on the formation of a qualitatively new expressive system of the puppet theatre in Ukraine, studied components of the process of renovation, identified inhibitory and stimulatory factors of development forming of a complex expressive system of puppets. The usual, wasted by years, aesthetics puppet theatre platen, or uniform, or "closed reception", which were based on the realistic tradition of theatrical art, suffered the destructive influence of the younger generation of directors who are going with the times, during the study period significantly transformed the genre puppet theater, developing and adopting a fundamentally different expressive system.