Creative reception of Leo Tolstoy’s works in contemporary dramaturgy

For contemporary drama of the turn of the XXth-XXIst centuries creative reception has become one of the leading author’s strategies. In the creative activity of playwrights of different ‘schools’ and directions, there appear works that directly or indirectly come into a dialogue with texts of their predecessors, which becomes productive or creative reception of classical plots of Russian literature. The work of Leo Tolstoy is no exception; Tolstoy legacy as well as his very personality have frequently agitated modern authors. The article deals with some examples of the reception of Leo Tolstoy’s works in modern drama and theater regarding whether the writer’s poetics involves creation of texts designed for game of imagination, parody, play with the reader.