Journey to another era (the features of the construction of the plot in the Vadim Levanov’s play “About Sasha, the fourth magus and Christmas day”)

The article considers the role of the cyclic plot scheme in modern play-tale, written for children. The article examines in detail the events of the play patterns of the clutch, its spatial organization and intertextual connections. The result of analysis is the conclusion that the Levanov’s play is a symbolic trial, which leads readers - teen and adult - to an understanding.