«Театральный вкус» современной эпохи (театр андерграунд в России и Румынии)
The "taste for theatre" in contemporary era (underground theatre in Russia and Romania)

Summary/Abstract: In modern dramas, plots are usually simplified, reduced to describing one or more situations. Heroes are not endowed with proper characters, but rather with functions, and thus the dialogue is a combination of events and heroes’ actions, in the sense that the abundance of lines literally replaces their need to do something or to go somewhere. The fact that a person should be genuinely good, as one of Chekhov's protagonists liked to say, is not at all true in new dramas, that tend more and more to depict precisely the opposite: the violence, cruelty, loneliness, sometimes even turning into some sort of “tragic rejection”. In such dramas, the world is artfully stylized. It is not reality itself that is displayed, but some postmodern super-reality ready to erase all previously known features. And in fact, this is only destruction hidden under the mask of building.

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