Chernyak, M. A. NEW DRAMA FOR NEW TEENAGERS: REVISITING TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MODERN DRAMA // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 7. P. 87–94. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.529


Literary studies

NEW DRAMA FOR NEW TEENAGERS: REVISITING TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MODERN DRAMA

Chernyak
M. A. 		Herzen State Pedagogical University
Keywords:
“new drama”
modern drama
play
post-drama theater
sociality
modern literature for adolescents
genre repertoire		 Summary: The article is aimed at identifying the main typological features of modern drama for adolescents. While the “new drama” of the XXI century is an object of serious comprehension by domestic literary criticism, the modern drama for adolescents represents an entirely new fi eld for scientifi c understanding. Identifying the specifi cs of this phenomenon seems 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 ects the main motives of modern children’s literature (confl icts at school, fi rst love , orphanage, single-parent families, teenage suicide, bullying, domestic violence, etc.). While the new drama for adults can be understood both as an antithesis and as 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 outrageous plays, the new generation of young playwrights (I. Vaskovskaya, A. Bukreeva, Yu. Tupikina, S. Orlovaand others) embodies the endless absurdity of our reality. The genre and thematic repertoire of contemporary drama for teenagers quite representatively refl ects the aesthetic and sociocultural coordinates of the time.



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