Dramaturgy of Country Life in Reality and Artwork
This article is devoted to specifying the topos «datcha (cottage)», which reflects the interaction of people - a space-culture triad. The first part deals with the verification signs, traced the genesis and evolution, especially a communicative style of country life, the real and justified mental characteristics of this cultural phenomenon. We refer to verification features of datcha: proximity to the city and communications, the small size of land and housing, cost of content, seasonal living, simplicity of life. Datcha is a borderland between town and the country, home and dump, well-being and survival, property and communal organization of being and life. The text representation of the suburban drama of the end of the twentieth century (in the tradition of the psychological theater «a new wave») on the example of plays by V. Arro («Look, Who Have Come» (1982) and L. Razumovskaya («French Passion in the Datcha outside Moscow» (1998) is given in the second part. According to the author, the psychological theater, which recorded the birth and decline of the datcha as a phenomenon of culture is also «a vanishing scenery» of the XX century, worthy of the research attention. The author of the article considers datcha's life as a cultural phenomenon and a theme of artistic interpretation, where the transitional situation of the turn of the 20 th-21 st centuries was displayed.