I want the truth. Modern teenage drama

Collections of modern drama for adolescents are an opportunity to introduce readers to the texts of new talented playwrights, now creating the image of the Russian theater for the most complex and demanding category of spectators. This is the first experience of the publication of modern teenage drama in the form of a paper collection. This is a response to a request of directors who are looking for new texts and topics, and the fixation of the teenage dramaturgy of 2010-2019, and interesting material for readers - among the playwrights there are already well -known authors of teenage prose and laureates of literary awards, which now appear in the role of playwrights .
All authors of the collection are participants and winners of dramatic laboratories and competitions. Many of the plays included in the collection are already in theaters.
9 plays 10 playwrights are divided into 2 collections on age -related addressing - "I want the truth" 12+ and "to everyone who concerns" 18+.
In the collection "I want the truth" included plays:
No doubt / D. Wardenburg,
Warrior / M. Ogneva,
I want the truth / S. Orlova,
March and Plum / E. Bizyaeva.
Do you hate the theater? Do you consider him boring? Then open and read! No naphthalene, tiring dialogues and instructive speeches. No moralizing. Only your life.
Maria Ogneva, playwright, curator of the competition for teenagers
The release of these two collections is a large event for us in the theater. Nine authors. All about one generation that appeared somewhere over the past five years. Thanks to them, it can already be argued that a deficiency of a teenage play, which was considered a rare piece of goods, has been overcome. Young authors feel the topic acutely. They are on the same wave with adolescents, with their characters. These are dashing, in places rebellious plays. I am delighted with their courage, depth, willingness to reach out. Some of these plays have already been set, some else are waiting in the wings. Their meeting with the viewer is still ahead. And now - a meeting with the reader! Hurray and thanks to the "Samokat"!
Vyacheslav Durnenkov, playwright
Synopsis of plays included in the collection:
Daria Vardenburg "no doubt"
Roles: Children - 13
The action takes place in a conditional living room in Ani"s apartment.
At the disposal of 13 -year -old Ani and Yana, there is a whole apartment - there will be no adults until the morning. Decisive Yana offers to throw a party, but timid Anya prefers to lie on the couch, and then Yana starts to trick: she takes her friend’s phone and calls all the frands to visit on her behalf. The party, however, will appear not only Ani Frenda, but also completely unexpected characters. In addition, Anya and Yana will receive a strange message and will be drawn into a mysterious game.
Maria Ogneva "Warrior"
Roles: Male - 6 (of which 5 are teenagers), female - 3 (of which 1 - teenager)
1996. In the small Siberian village of Zaozersky there is a war between the capeshniks (children living in the military unit) and village. Toha Dimov is a capeschnik, and he also does not see dyslexia, so the village hooligans have something to laugh at. Tohhi"s elder brother disappeared in Chechnya and often dreams of. Toha writes these dreams and events of the day in his diary, which his mother forced him to keep him - so that he coach literacy. When a brand new Katya Brabova appears in the class - a lively karatist, who interferes with the boys" war, the position of Tokhi worsens - the village people run even harder, and teachers threaten toha deductions because of the fight with Katya. Toha does not yet know that Katya will become his best friend and will help him go a long and difficult war of the warrior - to cope with fears and doubts and learn to resist the offenders.
Serafima Orlova "I want the truth"
Roles: Male - 2, Women"s - 1, children - 4 + Masses
Four teenagers were not taken from the international camp on time, because muddy affairs are being done in their city: either a technogenic disaster or a coup d"etat. Waiting for the return of the third month, in the face of lack of information, the children decide to run and get to their parents on their own, but, having barely stepped behind the camp of the camp, they fall into the nightmare surreal world of war. Maybe all this is just a terrible dream?
Ekaterina Bizyaeva "March and Plum"
Roles: men"s - 4, female - 3, men"s teenagers - 3, female teenagers - 1
The play occurs in our time in the modern city. A 14-year-old plum is faced with complete misunderstanding from friends and parents. He finds a friend on the Internet, but this virtual friend is a curator of the group calling for suicide. Plum is trying to find a way out, he resists, but his parents get divorced, the best friend betrays, the girl is not ready to accept him. All events lead a plum to one conclusion - there is no way out. He decides to make a desperate jump. And at the very last moment, real love, mother’s love saves him.
Compiled by Elizaveta Spivakovskaya