Performative in Sergei Davydov’s play “Kolya against everyone”

The article demonstrates the performative features of modern monodramatic plays. Moreover, the main definitions of performative and features of performative texts are provided in the present article. The features of the poetics of modern monodrama, which determine its performative potential, are discussed. The purpose of the article is to show, using the example of the analysis of S. Davydov’s monodrama, how performatization at various levels of text organization makes it possible to enhance the impact of a dramatic statement on the reader / viewer. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study comprised the works of N. A. Ageeva, Yu. B. Gryaznova, N. N. Evreinov, S. P. Lavlinsky, A. M. Pavlov, A. V. Pokalo. As a result of the analysis carried out, the performative features of the play “Kolya against everyone” are revealed practically at all levels of its artistic structure (paratext, system of characters, speech organization, plot situation and dramatic conflict). The author comes to the conclusions that the performative in the play helps to build constant communication between the subject of action and the recipient and also initiates the process of continuous “moral and ethical self-identification”, which occurs both at the level of the hero / protagonist, who, through his monologue, evaluates his life from the outside (extrinsically), and on the level of the recipient, who correlates his personal experience with the experience of the hero/ protagonist.