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New Russian Drama : An Anthology / ed. by Susanna Weygandt, Maksim Hanukai.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Russian LibraryPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231185103
  • 9780231545846
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.7208 23
LOC classification:
  • PG3245
  • PG3245 .N49 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD. What Thomas Hobbes Knows About Today’s Russia -- INTRODUCTION. Drama Against “Theater” and Theater After Drama -- A CHRONOLOGY OF NEW RUSSIAN DRAMA -- PLASTICINE -- PLAYING THE VICTIM -- SEPTEMBER.DOC -- THE BROTHERS CH. -- THE BLUE MACHINIST -- THE LOCKED DOOR -- THE SOLDIER -- SUMMER WASPS STING IN NOVEMBER, TOO -- SOMNAMBULISM -- PROJECT “SWAN” -- NOTES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Summary: New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Emerging from small playwriting festivals, provincial theaters, and converted basements, it evolved into a major artistic movement that startled audiences with hypernaturalistic portrayals of sex and violence, daring use of non-normative language, and thrilling experiments with genre and form. The movement’s commitment to investigating contemporary reality helped revitalize Russian theater. It also provoked confrontations with traditionalists in society and places of power, making theater once again Russia’s most politicized art form.This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global relevance of this exciting movement. Many of them address pressing social issues, such as ethnic tensions and political disillusionment; others engage with Russia’s rich cultural legacy by reimagining traditional genres and canons. Among them are a family drama about Anton Chekhov, a modern production play in which factory workers compose haiku, and a satirical verse play about the treatment of migrant workers, as well a documentary play about a terrorist school siege and a postdramatic “text” that is only two sentences long. Both politically and aesthetically uncompromising, they chart new paths for performance in the twenty-first century. Acquainting English-language readers with these vital works, New Russian Drama challenges us to reflect on the status and mission of the theater.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD. What Thomas Hobbes Knows About Today’s Russia -- INTRODUCTION. Drama Against “Theater” and Theater After Drama -- A CHRONOLOGY OF NEW RUSSIAN DRAMA -- PLASTICINE -- PLAYING THE VICTIM -- SEPTEMBER.DOC -- THE BROTHERS CH. -- THE BLUE MACHINIST -- THE LOCKED DOOR -- THE SOLDIER -- SUMMER WASPS STING IN NOVEMBER, TOO -- SOMNAMBULISM -- PROJECT “SWAN” -- NOTES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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New Russian Drama took shape at the turn of the new millennium—a time of turbulent social change in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Emerging from small playwriting festivals, provincial theaters, and converted basements, it evolved into a major artistic movement that startled audiences with hypernaturalistic portrayals of sex and violence, daring use of non-normative language, and thrilling experiments with genre and form. The movement’s commitment to investigating contemporary reality helped revitalize Russian theater. It also provoked confrontations with traditionalists in society and places of power, making theater once again Russia’s most politicized art form.This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global relevance of this exciting movement. Many of them address pressing social issues, such as ethnic tensions and political disillusionment; others engage with Russia’s rich cultural legacy by reimagining traditional genres and canons. Among them are a family drama about Anton Chekhov, a modern production play in which factory workers compose haiku, and a satirical verse play about the treatment of migrant workers, as well a documentary play about a terrorist school siege and a postdramatic “text” that is only two sentences long. Both politically and aesthetically uncompromising, they chart new paths for performance in the twenty-first century. Acquainting English-language readers with these vital works, New Russian Drama challenges us to reflect on the status and mission of the theater.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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