The study of connections between literature and the theater stage has a long tradition and is understandably at the intersection of different humanities disciplines.
The main direction of research is in the art historical plane, since both phenomena are aesthetic in essence. However, it is possible to identify a number of parameters that both accompany the aesthetic approach and are independent. One of them is the sociological direction of research, an integral part of which is the statistical approach. Of course, this is the sociology of art, and not sociology as such, and its value lies in the fact that by focusing on formal indicators (for us this is the general repertoire of Russian theaters) in abstraction from the very artistic content of the phenomena, we can trace the specifics of the functioning of
these phenomena in their relation to extra-aesthetic factors. In our study, we turned to the indicators of two theater seasons (2018/19 and 2023/24) in order to identify the leaders of stage interest from among domestic and foreign writers. This comparative analysis demonstrates which works of various authors are staged the most and to which literary eras they belong. In this sense, classical literature is not just successful, but is increasingly becoming the basis for performances. This indicates the protracted, stagnating nature of theatrical processes, most likely being a reaction to intense macro-social processes that have accompanied cultural life for at least the last four years. Nevertheless, a lot of attention is paid to other literary eras shown in this article.
For citation: Proshchin Е.Е. Literary works and their productions in the modern russian theater (leaders in popularity in the 2018/19 and 2023/24 seasons), Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2024, Special issue, pp. 59—70.