Digital drama of the first quarter of the XXI century. Experience of performative projection of modern times


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This article is devoted to new forms of organization of dramatic and stage text associated with the digimodern culture. It provides a brief excursion into the history and theory of digimodernism in America. Moreover, there have been considered modern Russian-language examples of digital stage text adapted to our reality. The experience of the director Dmitry Volkostrelov and his numerous theatrical practices are analyzed as a hero / protagonist of the story. As the hero of the story, the experience of director Dmitry Volkostrelov and his numerous theatrical practices are explored.
The text of the article explores step by step the problem of adapting the dramatic genre to the digital reality of the Internet and analyzes the very possibility of such adaptation. The key question is asked: “What is virtual reality becoming in the theatrical environment today? The background or content of the story, the reason for the development of new theater director’s matrices.
Through the retrospective of Dmitry Volkostrelov’s directorial work, a hypothesis is built about the possible influence of the surrounding space on the texts of the play by Pavel Pryazhko (drama in the life of this principal director) and the language of Volkostrelov’s mise-en-scene.

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Maria Sizova

Russian State Institute of Performing Arts

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Email: sizmariyaiv@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6630-0730

Ph.D. in Art Studies, Associate Professor

Russian Federation, 34, Mokhovaya St., St. Petersburg, 191028, Russian Federation

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