Rezhisserskaya metodologiya - prisushchaya rezhisseru postanovochnaya manera, rezhisserskiy pocherk, opredelyaemye mirooshchushcheniem i mirovideniem khudozhnika (vybor stsenicheskogo syuzheta) i rezhisserskoy tekhnikoy (sposob interpretatsii iskhodnogo dramaturgicheskogo materiala i ego pererabotka v sobstvenno rezhisserskiy syuzhet, dramaturgiya spektaklya - kompozitsionnye printsipy postroeniya stsenicheskogo deystviya, rabota s teatral'nym prostranstvom i stsenicheskim vremenem, kontseptsiya aktera, printsipy ego igry i sposob stsenicheskogo sushchestvovaniya, printsipy vzaimodeystviya stseny i zritel'nogo zala i proch.). Kniga posvyashchena analizu nakhodivsheysya v protsesse stanovleniya rezhisserskoy metodologii V.E. Meyerkhol'da v traditsionalistskiy period ego tvorchestva (1908 - 1918) i na materiale raboty rezhissera v Aleksandrinskom teatre (Sankt-Peterburg - Petrograd). Kniga prednaznachena teatrovedam-issledovatelyam, istorikam i teoretikam teatra, teatral'nym kritikam, rezhisseram-postanovshchikam, dramaturgam, khudozhnikam, akteram i drugim praktikam teatra, a takzhe vsem zainteresovannym v ponimanii prirody stsenicheskogo iskusstva lyubitelyam teatra.