Dramaturgy Biography

Invalid theater -goers know that dramatic contests and seminars are held annually, at which new plays sound, and the theaters work in the theaters - employees who are engaged in the selection of texts. For people not theatrical, sometimes it becomes the discovery that drama can be modern, and playwrights live among them. However, both of them probably would like to get acquainted with the playwrights, read reviews of plays or learn news from the world of drama.

Therefore, we decided to open a column in which we will talk about everything a little about everything, and the first text in this section to answer popular questions about modern drama was asked by the author’s friends and acquaintances. What drama to consider modern? The concept of "modern drama" can be interpreted very widely. As the philologist Margarita Gromova noted in the textbook “Russian Modern Drama” publishing house “Flint”,: “The concept of“ Modern dramaturgy ”is very capacious both in chronological and aesthetically.

Here we are already dealing with our new classics Alexei Arbuzov, Viktor Rozov, Alexander Volodin, Alexander Vampilov, who updated the traditional genre of Russian realistic psychological drama and paved the way to further discoveries. The evidence of this life -giving process is the work of playwrights of the “new wave” of the 10ths of the XX century - approx. In his other textbook “Russian Drama of the late XX - early XXI centuries”, the publishing house “Flint”, Margarita Gromova wrote: “First of all, any outstanding artistic work, raising eternal, universal, art, is consonant with any era, regardless of the time of creating.

Such, for example, is a world dramatic classic that does not interrupt his life on stage. In a narrow sense, this is an actual, topical dramaturgy of an acute journalistic sound. ” It remains to add its purely subjective author's opinion. I would attribute to the modern drama of the play, written in the last 20 years, during the period of recent history. After all, they reflect what contemporaries live, what they breathe and what they reflect on.

What do modern playwrights write about? Modern drama raises the most diverse topics: socio-psychological, socio-political, spiritual, family, interethnic and many others. Through modern plays, you can get acquainted with the culture of megacities and provinces, reflect on self -identification and success, a person’s place in the era of digitalization and acceleration of life.

In addition, now you can easily find plays on topics that have recently been taboo: domestic violence, feminism, Abuez, sex ... Documentary plays are made up in modern dramaturgy, which is based on verbatim: often it is the installation of monologues, or a real story that acquires a art form with the efforts of the playwright. Do modern drama must be socio-political? There is a feeling that this is an imposed agenda.

Writing the play is a free creative process. The choice of the topic, the creation of heroes and the circumstances in which they find themselves depend on the plan of the playwright, and are often dictated by his life and professional experience, a messenger that he wants to convey to the reader. Do women write plays? Yes, yes, and again yes! We can safely say that modern Russian -speaking drama has a female face.

Any of these names can be scored in Google and easily find information about these beautiful authors and the texts of their wonderful plays. Can anyone become a playwright or is a special education needed? You can learn to play the playwright in Russia at the Yekaterinburg State Theater Institute, where, under the general leadership of the outstanding playwright and director Nikolai Kolyada, a unique cycle of creative disciplines is being taught aimed at training dramaturgov and literary theater and cinema workers.

The concept of “Ural School of Drama” is connected with Kolyada, and many of his students became successful playwrights and screenwriters. Another forge of playwrights is the Russian State Institute for Stage Arts in St. Petersburg, where under the leadership of the screenwriter, candidate of art history Natalia Skorokhod, students study the “skill of the playwright”, “scenario strategies”, “analysis of the drama”, “work with the author”, “basics of staging” and other disciplines.

In addition, many playwrights are held laboratories and seminars in different regions of the country, where they share the secrets of writing plays. The announcements of such measures and the rules for the selection for them, as a rule, publish sites-organizers. And the playwright Julia Tupikina summarized her dramatic and teaching experience and wrote the book “How to wake Shakespeare in herself.

Drama for the first play ”, which can be used for self -education. A photo of free sources and, of course, everyone can try to become a playwright. If the soul asks and the text develops, then why not? What to do if I write a play?If you write a play, send it to all kinds of dramatic contests. And do not stop if you are not at first to be taken to short lists.

Unlucky at one competition, lucky in the other! Drama is creativity, and its assessment is a subjective matter. What contests of modern drama are there in Russia? Currently, contests of modern drama are held in different parts of our country. Information about them can be found on the Internet, and we will call the most, in our opinion, authoritative. One of the most popular competitions is the festival of young drama "Lyubimovka", which is held every September in Moscow and becomes a significant event of the opening of the theater season of the capital.

Initially, the festival was held in the historical estate of Stanislavsky “Lyubimovka”, and “registered” in the theater from the year. The authors who write in Russian can participate in Lyubimovka, under the age of 45, living in any country in the world. The Ural playwright Nikolai Kolyada in Yekaterinburg annually holds the international playwright competition "Eurasia".

It is held in the nominations “Play for the Big Stage”, “Play for the Chamber Scene”, “Play for the Children's Theater”; "New Ural Drama." It is participated in it no older than 35 years, writing in Russian, however, only students and graduates of the course of Nikolai Kolyada at the Yekaterinburg State Theater Institute present their work in the nomination "New Ural Drama".

Nikolai Kolyada. Photo: Lyudmila Safonova The Competition of the New Drama "Remarca" holds the final every year in the new city, in direct cooperation with the theaters of the host region. The competition was created by Oleg Lipovetsky in the year in Petrozavodsk to support and promote the talented playwrights of Karelia and the northwest, but soon it grew out regional frames. The competition has no age restrictions, and it has a separate program where plays for children are involved - “Little Remarus”.

Every year, since the year, the Moscow Theater "School of Modern Play" has been holding an international competition of Russian -language drama "Actors". Its founders are also the Russian State Library of Arts, Radio Culture, Modern Drama magazine. There is no restriction on age, professional status in the competition. The main thing is that the play is written in Russian and is not set.

The contest of modern drama "Culture" has been held since the year of the Fund for the Development of Modern Art, the Brusnikin Workshop and the Union of Theater Workers with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund. Do modern plays publish for reading? Also in the press you can also find collections of plays. For example, in the years, a two -volume man of plays of the Ural playwrights “The First Bread” came out, and a collection “Lyubimovka was published in the year.

A photo of free sources is in demand, is modern drama theater or authors write “on the table”? In the repertoire of almost every Russian theater, there are performances based on the plays of modern authors. In the year, the theater critic Pavel Rudnev noted: “Somewhere from the end of the X repertoire theater, he restored the balance between modernity and classic, so the good text, appearing somewhere, sooner or later reaches the stage and receives resonance.” Obviously, to take the material of the new author into the repertoire of the theater - the risk of not selling the hall.

In addition, “copyright deductions” are laid to the modern author, which also carries a financial burden on the theater. Who is the most famous modern playwrights? Evgeny Grishkovets. Photos from free sources What are the famous performances staged according to the plays of modern playwrights? Perhaps every person interested in the theater in recent years has heard the name "Man from Podolsk." The performances for this play by Dmitry Danilov are now in many theaters of the country, and recently the film of the same name Semyon Serzin was still released.

One of the high -profile theatrical premieres of the year was the “Iranian Conference” of Viktor Ryzhakov based on the play by Ivan Vyrypaev in the theater of nations, and in the year, in the “Contemporary”, Ryzhakov put an equally loud “collected works” of Evgeny Grishkovts. Chekhova was made based on the play by Asi Voloshina. Her play “Mom” is the basis of the same popular performance by Vladimir Pankov in the center of drama and directing.

You can dial a couple of dozen names of performances that are successful with the audience and staged by the plays of modern playwrights. Do they put foreign modern playwrights? Chekhov - staging the plays of Woody Allen. Tovstonogov - performances based on the play by Martin McDonakh. Do young playwrights love “age” directors, or is it easier for them to work with classics?

Does age matter here? Most likely, the age does not matter, the director’s interest in the new authors and their texts is important. For example, Galina Volchek worked with the texts of contemporaries throughout the work, and Mark Zakharov already at a respectable age turned to the works of Vladimir Sorokin.