Identity Restoration Project in Novaya Drama: Focusing on Representation of Narrative Self in I. Vyrypaev’s drama

This study aims to analyze the narrative structure and the narrator-character's feature of Ivan Vyrypaev's drama as a part of a wide-ranging attempt to explain characteristics of Novaya drama, which has at its core the problem of the construction of the narrative self and the restoration of identity. Vyrypaev's early plays, including , , and , represent the mental wanderings of modern people through the provocative subjects, intermittent scene changes, and the narrator-character's fast rap-text. These works reveal the situation of mental wandering and existential crisis of modern people who are allowed all pleasures. In his later works, in the case of , , , , and , the composition of the characters, the subject matter, and the situation begin to take on an ordinary, usual feature, while at the same time, relationships with others and their inability to communicate are presented as main topics. And finally the narrator-characters of Vyrypaev’s recent works, , , and are composed of characters such as interviewers, interviewees, and conference attendees, so that the theater is presented as a place for contemporary encounters that includes the audience. Vyrypaev’s insight that modern audiences come to the theater not to see Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but to listen to the stories of their contemporary writers and actors awakens the perception of the essence of the theatre that should not be forgotten in the feast of various media.