НОВАЯ ДРАМА ДЛЯ НОВЫХ ТИНЕЙДЖЕРОВ: К ВОПРОСУ О ТИПОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ЧЕРТАХ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ДРАМАТУРГИИ
NEW DRAMA FOR NEW TEENAGERS: REVISITING TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MODERN DRAMA

Summary/Abstract: The article is aimed at identifying the main typological features of modern drama for adolescents. While the “newdrama” of the XXI century is an object of serious comprehension by domestic literary criticism, the modern drama foradolescents represents an entirely new fi eld for scientifi c understanding. Identifying the specifi cs of this phenomenonseems very relevant. Modern drama for adolescents, on the one hand, has discursiveness that is characteristic of the“new drama” (deconstruction of reality, a new type of hero, aesthetics of trauma, etc.), and on the other hand it refl ectsthe main motifs of modern children’s literature (confl icts at school, fi rst love, orphanage, single-parent families, teenagesuicide, bullying, domestic violence, etc.). While the new drama for adults can be understood both as an antithesis andas the synthesis of historical tendencies in the representation of violence, the new drama for adolescents, in a sense,continues the traditions of the “dark”, gruesome mass culture of the fi rst decade of the XXI century. In their often outrageousplays, the new generation of young playwrights (I. Vaskovskaya, A. Bukreeva, Yu. Tupikina, S. Orlova and others) embodies the endless absurdity of our reality. The genre and thematic repertoire of contemporary drama forteenagers quite representatively refl ects the aesthetic and sociocultural coordinates of the time.

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