New Drama in Russian Performance, Politics and Protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Library of Modern Russia
Author:
J. A. E. Curtis
ISBN:
9781350142480
Related ISBNs:
9781788313506
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-05-14
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
J. A. E. Curtis, 2 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Drama, Plays and Theater, History, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction