FUNCTIONS OF HETEROTOPIES IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN DRAMATURGY

Abstract

The article reveals the specificity of the heterotopic approach in the analysis of artistic texts and characterizes the functions of heterotopias in modern Ukrainian drama. Examining artistic dramatic texts as «other space» it was found that modern Ukrainian playwrights at the liminal stage resorted to creating the image of a parental house, a village, a provincial town, which realize in the texts the heterotopia function of a prison that breaks time; the heterotopia of the Maidan, Donbass as a museum and archive that accumulates time, and interpreted the current state of the country through the function of the heterotopia of the library in intertextual images, motifs and plots. At the postliminal stage, the heterotopia of the parental house, the town, changed its function to that of a museum. By resorting to heterotopia as an artistic image in dramas, playwrights have the opportunity to highlight the collision of a private and public character, which strengthens the dramaturgical conflict, to demonstrate how the personal spaces of the characters are presented in «other spaces», which helps to realize the specificity of the character of the heroes, they have the opportunity to embody «rituals of transition» between topos and images of “ritual sacrifices” that the characters are ready for in order to go beyond heterotopia. Heterotopias of the subject of broadcasting in modern Ukrainian drama are manifested primarily by the time-spaces of captivity, prison, hospital, educational institution, train, ship. Ukrainian dramaturgy of the post-liminal period, in addition to changing the function of the heterotopia of the parental home, village, town, train, represents the heterotopia of the shelter (bomb shelter). Playwrights actively involve heterotopic images that realize the author's idea of an artistic return of a character to his own past in order to find and reflect on mistakes, to get answers to questions or strength to fight from the past. The hero's past, recorded in memories, has signs of a hermetic space with its internal laws, rituals, interrupts, stops or accumulates time.