CASES OF EXPRESSIONISM IN MODERN DRAMATURGY AND THEATER (ON THE EXAMPLE OF PLAYS BY T. LETTS, V. SIGAREV)

This article analyzes the plays of American and Russian authors (T. Letts "August. Osage County", V. Sigarev "Ladybugs Return to Earth") for the reception of expressionist dramaturgy and theater. The author uses a system-cultural approach with elements of the case method (situational analysis). As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that in the considered plays, despite the mass of mental and worldview differences of their authors, the difference in the creative method of the latter and in the problems of their works, the socio-historical conditions in which the plays were created, an expressionist tradition is found ( to a greater or lesser extent) - in the attraction to intimacy, existential situations, the problem of freedom, the theme of fathers and children, at the level of acting, in the absence of an optimistic perspective and the general expressionist concept of man and the world, designated by Yu.B. Borev (“individuality, confused by the chaos of the world”). The choice was justified by the popularity of the above authors and their works among the domestic audience, as well as the presence of international awards. The artistic originality of the works, in the author's opinion, is due to the complex and paradoxical interaction of expressionist aesthetics with the realistic method.