The article compares innovative approaches to the use of the dramaturgical form of organisation of the literary text by two Russian writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: Genrikh Sapgir and Anatoly Ryasov. They belong to different literary generations and independently of each other have come to similar creative results. The synthetic texts they created can be considered a new word in Russian literature of recent times, despite a number of similar experiences that had emerged earlier in the depths of radical Russian Futurism, OBERIU poetry and neo-Futurism of the mid—late twentieth century, but which were mainly experimental in nature. The historical roots of Sapgir's and Ryasov`s dramaturgised poetry and prose are examined, the peculiarities of their use of the technique
of dramaturgical writing, taking into account their connections with similar attempts made by their predecessors and contemporaries. Special attention is paid to the changing nature and expanding functions of the remark, in a number of works completely replacing the rest of the text, as well as writers' autoreflexions about their experiments in dramaturgising verse and prose.
For citation: Orlitskiy Y.B. Drama without theatre: Sapgir and Ryasov, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2024, Special issue, pp. 39—51.