Features of artistic space in the play «Pannochka» by Nina Sadur

Based on the available studies of Nina Sadur's drama, the authors review the specifics of spatial coordinates in the play «Pannochka» (1985) as a fact of creative transformation of the artistic world of Nikolai Gogol by the contemporary playwright. The peculiarities of space in the play by Sadur, like in Gogol's, lie in the coexistence of two worlds - the world of people and the other world. Unlike the classic, the earthly world in Nina Sadur's play reveals the absence of miracles and secrets, and at the same time doesn't deny the presence of witches as the power of dark forces. Imperfection and incompleteness of the earthly world is explained by the playwright as the penetration of dark forces into it, and the hero perceives it as a willingness to enter into a duel with their personification - Pannochka. This fight will take place in a «dilapidated, defiled» church, where the hero sacrifices himself for the sake of preserving the Orthodox world. It is argued that the transformation of Gogol's plot in the play «Pannochka» is caused by the author's concept of a hero who finds himself on the border of two worlds in the face of a mystery and tries to gain knowledge about the world and about himself. And this state corresponds to the consciousness of a person in transition.