Specificity of Stage Directions in Yevgeniy Grishkovets Play “The City” Approach

Abstract

The article discusses the semantic device of ellipsis. This technique reflects the reflection of the feelings of a modern “city dweller”, a man “in the prime of life”, a “terry egoist”. The modern hero of the play talks more than he does. Stage directions in modern dramaturgy become not just montage sequences in the compositional structure of discourse; in some cases, the playwright introduces the plot of the work into stage directions. "New Drama", written with different aesthetic orientations, reflects the heterogeneity of directions and trends in the development of Russian drama at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries.