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New drama in Russian : performance, politics and protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Title: New drama in Russian : performance, politics and protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus / edited by J.A.E. Curtis.
Publication: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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Additional Authors

Curtis, J. A. E. (Julie A. E.

Description

xii, 276 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

How and why does the stage, and those who perform upon it, play such a significant role in the social makeup of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? In New Drama in Russian, Julie Curtis brings together an international team of leading scholars and practitioners to tackle this complex question. New Drama, which draws heavily on techniques of documentary and verbatim writing, is a key means of protest in the Russian-speaking world; since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, theatres, dramatists, and critics have collaborated in using the genre as a lens through which to explore a wide range of topics from human rights and state oppression to sexuality and racism. Yet surprisingly little has been written on this important theatrical movement. New Drama in Russian rectifies this. Through providing analytical surveys of this outspoken transnational genre alongside case-studies of plays and interviews with playwrights, this volume sheds much-needed light on the key issues of performance, politics, and protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Meticulously researched and elegantly argued, this book will be of immense value to scholars of Russian cultural history and post-Soviet literary studies.

Series Statement

Library of Modern Russia

Uniform Title

Library of modern Russia.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 267) and index.

Contents

pt. I Russia -- 1. The story of Russian-language drama since 2000: PostDoc, the postdramatic and Teatr Post / Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu -- 2. Giving testimony in the face of an authoritarian regime: The evolution of documentary forms at Teatr.doc, the KnAM Theatre and the Belarus Free Theatre / Lucie Kempf -- 3. From Stalinist Socialist Realism to Putinist Capitalist Realism: Tracing cultural ideology in contemporary Russia / Alexander Trustrum Thomas -- 4. Conversation with Mikhail Durnenkov and Maria Kroupnik (Liubimovka Festival, Moscow, September 2017) / J.A.E. Curtis -- 5. C̀lass Act' in Russia and Ukraine: Youth drama projects and social theatre practice / Maria Kroupnik -- 6. Conversation with Sasha Denisova (Moscow, October 2013) / Susanna Weygandt -- 7. Conversation with Ivan Vyrypaev (Moscow, May 2013) / Susanna Weygandt -- 8. Absence on stage in Ivan Vyrypaev's July / Valeriia Mutc -- pt. II Ukraine -- 9. The watershed year of 2014: The b̀irth' of Ukrainian New Drama / Noah Birksted-Breen -- 10. The playwright overlooked: Personal reflections on two years in Ukrainian theatre (2017 -- 19) / Jack Clover -- 11. A new d̀awn' in Ukrainian theatre: A conversation with Maksym Kurochkin (April 2019) / Jack Clover -- 12. Stages of change: Ukraine's Theatre of Displaced People / Molly Flynn -- 13. Ǹe skvernoslov', otets moy' [C̀urse not, my son']: Anna Iablonskaia's The Pagans and the search for a language of authenticity / Molly Thomasy Biasing -- 14. Natal'ia Vorozhbyt's Viy. Autoethnography through a Gogolian lens / Jessica Hinds-Bond -- pt. III Belarus -- 15. The transformation of the language of Ǹew Drama' in Belarus, as a reflection of a new model of identity / Tania Arcimovich -- 16. Conversation with Natalia Koliada, Belarus Free Theatre (London, March 2019) / J. A. E. Curtis -- 17. Pavel Priazhko: the Text as an Instant Photograph (2012); Conversation with Pavel Priazhko (2011); Essay on Pavel Priazhko's methods / Tania Arcimovich -- 18. The artistic space shared by Eastern Slavs, and the ways in which that is created: The Way People Love by the Belarusian dramatist / Dmitry Bogoslavsky Natalia Osis.

Call Number

MWEL (Russia) 21-2100

ISBN

9781788313506
178831350X

OCLC

1180068281

Title

New drama in Russian : performance, politics and protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus / edited by J.A.E. Curtis.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of Modern Russia

Library of modern Russia.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 267) and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Curtis, J. A. E. (Julie A. E., editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781350142480

Research Call Number

MWEL (Russia) 21-2100

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