New Drama
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New Drama (also described as New Russian Drama) is a Russian theater movement that emphasizes "natural speech" and addresses social issues while avoiding being overtly political.[1][2] The movement emerged in the 1990s, during the period of perestroika. During that time, there were many theaters in Russia, but few new playwrights; the existing theaters produced mostly foreign plays and Russian classics.[3]: 28–29 Some early leaders in the New Drama movement were playwright and director Nikolay Kolyada, who was creating new works throughout the 1990s, and Aleksei Kazantsev, who opened the Playwright and Director Center in Moscow in 1998 to encourage the development of new plays and support new playwrights.[1][3]: 29