Dramatic works of the “Bum-Bam-Lit” generation

Abstract

The article presents the works of young Belarusian dramatists who write in Belarusian: Viktar Zhybul, Volga Gapeyeva, or Hanna Tsikhanava. It compares their works with the dramas authored by their peers, Belarusian Russian-speaking dramatists: Pavel Pryazhko, Andrei Kureichik, Diana Balyko, and others. The author maintains that most plays in Belarusian were written in the aesthetics of the theater of the absurd, which already became history for contemporary art and was never popular with Belarusian audiences. In contrast, Russian-speaking authors imitate the tradition of the Russian psychological school or follow the model of Russian new drama; their works are more modern and more varied in terms of genres.