December 12th, 2013 – the Reader’s Museum of the Library hosted the presentation of the new issue of “Sovremennaya Dramaturgiya” (“Modern Drama Literature”) magazine (# 4, 2013).
The Literary magazine “Sovremennaya Dramaturgiya” has been issued since 1982 and publishes the best Russian and foreign plays, topical materials concerning dramaturgy and theatre.
Rodion Beletskiy, the chairman of the meeting who is heading one of the magazine sections, made presentation of the new issue and profiled its authors.
The participators of the meeting presented their new plays:
Yulia Tupikina – journalist, playwright and scriptwriter from Moscow, winner of various drama contests.
Her first play “Babyblues” won the 10th International Drama Contest “Eurasia-2012” in the category “Play for the Big Stage”.
The new issue of “Sovremennaya Dramaturgiya” includes her play “Granny” (“Ba”) that won the first prize in the category “Play for Chamber Stage” of the contest “Eurasia-2013”.
The play tells a story of a young woman who lives in Moscow and is visited by her grandmother from Siberia.
Anatoly Vasilievich Korolev - writer, playwright.
Anatoly Korolev is a prize winner of the USSR State Cinema Committee for the best script “Every hunter wants to know where pheasants hide/Kazhdiy okhotnik zhelaet znat gde sidyat fazany” (1976), “Znamya” magazine prize winner for novels “Eron” (1994) and “Being Bosch”(2004), International literature prize winner “Moscow–Penne” for his short novel “Gogol’s Head” (2000), winner of the “Literary Russia” prize (2005), winner of the Apollon Grigoriev prize of the Academy of Modern Russian Literature (2004) and Moscow City Government prize (2006) for his novel “Being Bosch” shortlisted for the “Big Book” prize (2006).
His new play “Formaline” published in “Sovremennaya Dramaturgiya” is a journalistic documental investigation of a kidnapping, a very surprising story.
The meeting had a traditionally warm and amicable atmosphere where the authors answered many interesting questions.
We would like to express our gratitude to all who took part in the event and hope you had a nice time in our Library! We are looking forward to seeing you again in the New Year 2014!
