THE TELLING EVENT AS A WAY OF OVERCOMING THE IDENTITY CRISIS IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN MONODRAMA (an analysis the of play «Mother» by A. Voloshina)

The offered article is devoted to the analysis of A. Voloshina’s play “Mother” in order to identify the features characteristic of modern Russian monodrama of the last decade, as well as to clarify the specifics of dramatic conflict in monodrama and possible options for resolving the crisis situation of the dramatic subject through the process of publishing the ego-story within the framework of the storytelling event. The paper records the changes that have occurred in the monodrama since its development within the latest Russian dramaturgy (compositional, thematic, structure-forming) and suggests possible ways of researching such texts. Special attention is paid to the comprehension of the concept of «action» within the proposed artistic text (action as a type of performative art or provocative gesture), as well as to the role of the addressee in the communicative act of the monodramatic subject and his value picture of the world, namely how his presence or absence can become a decisive factor in the resolution of a crisis situation. The article considers the stages of overcoming the identity crisis within and due to monologic speech, where «speaking» about one’s own life actualizes the process of autoreflexion and becomes the only tool for acquiring a new optic for the protagonist’s perception of himself and the world. One of the crisis points for the modern dramatic hero is growing up and separation from the image of the parent; such concepts as «trauma», «separation», and «depression» penetrate into the discourse: this paper is an attempt to comprehend the place of these issues in the thematic diversity of modern monodrama and to identify theoretical literary models that would allow us to talk about these phenomena not as psychology, but as the starting situation of the dramatic plot.