{{Infobox person | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1941|02|17}} | birth_place = Village Khorol', Primorsky Krai, {{USSR}} | birth_name = Eduard Valentinovich Butenko | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2006|09|02|1941|02|17}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | spouse = | occupation = theatre director, actor, theoretic, teacher | years_active = 1959 - 2006 }}
'''Eduard Butenko''' ({{langx|ru|Эдуард Валентинович Бутенко}}, February 17, 1941 – September 2, 2006) - Russian actor, theatre director, teacher, theatre theoretic.
==Biography== On 1959 Eduard Butenko began his theatre career as an actor in "Kiev Russian Drama Theatre" when he was 18.
After graduating from the University of Shevchenko (1966) with a BA in Philology/Slavic Languages and the National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev (1971) with a BA in Drama Theatre Stage Directing, Butenko has directed over 70 drama performances, musicals, various show programs, TV and radio plays.
Since 1987 E. Butenko lectured in Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (on variety department) and in "Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute".
On 2004 Butenko created "Russian Drama School" where he taught his own system. Butenko is the author of stage transformation theory, stated and published in the books "Imitation Theory of Stage Transformation" (2004) and "Stage Transformation, Theory and Practice" (2005).
==Stage productions as theatre director==
===Dnipropetrovsk Russian Drama Theatre=== *1971 – diploma spectacle (National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev)
===Ryazan Oblast Drama Theatre=== *1980 "Pelageya i Al'ka" «{{langx|ru|Пелагея и Алька}}» (Author: Abramov) *1981 "The Barber of Seville" (Author: Pierre Beaumarchais) *1982 "Monsieur Amilcar"
===Altai Krai Drama Theatre=== *1984 "Vagonchik" «{{langx|ru|Вагончик}}» (Author: Pavlova)
===Moscow Variety Theatre=== *1987 "Thee questions" (Author: V. Koklushkin) *1988 "Kruglaya luna" «{{langx|ru|Круглая луна}}» (Author: V. Koklushkin)
===Mossovet Theatre (Moscow)=== *1993 "Francesco d'Assisi " Opera teatrale in 3 atti (author: Jean-Marie Benjamin).<ref name="test1">[http://www.jmbenjamin.org/ENG/musica/11.html Francesco d'Assisi Opera teatrale in 3 atti]</ref>
===University of Pittsburgh Theatre (U.S.A)=== * 2005 – "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" (W. Shakespeare)<ref name="test2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/media/pcc051024/chronicling_pericles_2005OCT24.html |title=Chronicling... Pitt Rep's Pericles / October 24, 2005 |access-date=April 20, 2010 |archive-date=October 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003055425/http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/media/pcc051024/chronicling_pericles_2005OCT24.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Bibliography== * Butenko, Eduard (2004). ({{langx|ru|Имитационная теория сценического перевоплощения}}) "The Imitation Theory Of Actor's Transformation" {{ISBN|5-901507-06-1}} * Butenko, Eduard (2005). ({{langx|ru|Сценическое перевоплощение. Теория и практика}}) [http://www.rudata.ru/wiki/Сценическое_перевоплощение._Теория_и_практика_(книга) "Stage Transformation, Theory and Practice"] * Butenko, Eduard (2004). "The Imitation Theory Of Actor's Transformation" [https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1149105121]
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== *[http://www.eduard-butenko.narod.ru Eduard Butenko] *[http://www.jmbenjamin.org/ENG/musica/11.html Francesco d'Assisi Opera teatrale in 3 atti] *[http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/media/pcc051024/chronicling_pericles_2005OCT24.html Chronicling... Pitt Rep's Pericles / October 24, 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003055425/http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/media/pcc051024/chronicling_pericles_2005OCT24.html |date=October 3, 2011 }}
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