Review article
Dramatic Literature of Independent Ukraine: Stylistic Tendencies in the Context of Socio-Cultural Transformations
Nadija Mirošnyčenko
; Les Kurbas National Center of Theater Arts
Abstract
The article analyzes how the main stylistic trends are manifested in Ukrainian drama of the post-totalitarian period from the 1990s to 2021. The article proposes to distinguish three groups of texts in accordance with the artistic reality depicted in them: historical and biographical drama, actual one and fantasy drama. The first type is associated with the processes of de-ideologization and the formation of statehood, rethinking history and cultural heroes. The actual drama until 2014 mainly focuses on social issues: social transformations and adaptations, postcolonial consciousness, the consequences of the economic crisis and emigration, and so on. The focus of the plays after the Revolution of Dignity is on understanding the phenomenon of the Maidan, the struggle for human rights, against totalitarianism and the Russian occupation. The third group experiments with different forms of fantasy drama: mystical, animalistic, territorial, virtual, and so on. Ukrainian drama of the late twentieth century mostly has features of postmodernism and semi-documentary drama, as well as elements of trends of the past, supplanted in the Soviet period, such as drama of the absurd. At the beginning of the twentieth century, models of postdrama, docudrama, metadrama emerged, and features of metamodernism developed. An artistic phenomenon called „whimsical drama“ is also described.
Keywords
Ukrainian drama; play; stylistic trends; structure; postmodernism; postdrama; metadrama; metamodernism
Hrčak ID:
270861
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2021.
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