The author of the article refers to the theatrical repertoire of the 2023-2024 season, comparing it with the indicators of the season from five years ago, which was already the object of his consideration. The objectives of the study include recording the dynamics of changes in the structure of the theatrical repertoire over the specified period, especially taking into account 49 those external (cultural, socio-political and even sanitary-epidemiological) challenges that have been thrown at society in recent years and to which theatrical life could not fail to respond. Therefore, even a simple calculation of the total number of literary works, staged in Russian theatres, makes it possible to present the main trends. Thus, the author discovers the growing conservatism of repertory politics. The transformation of Russian classical literature into the basis of the theatrical repertoire is clearly noticeable. This is observed against the background of an increase in the number of performances themselves, but the proportion of modern works remains almost the same. However, Russian classics and works of the XX century provide the specified quantitative increase. There are no special changes in relation to foreign literature, the quantitative increase does not affect it. Time-tested works also have their share in the repertoire as the basis of the children's segment of the repertoire. At the same time, modern "serious" literature, with some exceptions, is not particularly popular. It can be said that Russian theaters, turning to literary pretexts, for the most part do not go beyond the limits of conservative-populist repertory politics. Moreover, there is a clear difference between the theater centers and the periphery. If in the former there is a noticeable frond, the choice of a less obvious and predictable repertoire, then with increasing distance from them, the repertoire policy does not even look like a compromise, but simply inertially archaic.
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