Playing with the Dramaturgical Tradition in Anna Kashina’s Play „Duma” Cover Image

Игра с драматургическими традициями в пьесе Анны Кашиной „Дума”
Playing with the Dramaturgical Tradition in Anna Kashina’s Play „Duma”

Author(s): Paulina Sikora-Krizhevska
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: playing with tradition;Anna Kashina;contemporary drama;narrator;video art

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the combination of classical and innovative artistic techniques in the play "Duma" by Anna Kashina. Playing with the dramaturgical tradition on different levels is described and it is shown to embrace the system of characters, the content of the stage directions (the insertion of video projections, moving the action to auditorium) and also the composition of the play. Kashina’s play is discussed by the author as a work whose poetics is determined by the aesthetics of modern visual media as well as by the literary tradition.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 241-249
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian