The metaphorical potential of documentary drama about Russian crimes in Mariupol (based on Kateryna Penkovа's documentary drama “Marathon ‘Russian Roulette’”

Бондарева, Олена Євгенівна (2025) The metaphorical potential of documentary drama about Russian crimes in Mariupol (based on Kateryna Penkovа's documentary drama “Marathon ‘Russian Roulette’” Синопсис: текст, контекст, медіа, 3 (31). pp. 165-170. ISSN 2311-259X

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Abstract

The article examines Kateryna Penkova's play “Marathon ‘Russian Roulette’” as a vivid artistic and documentary testimony to the Russian genocide in Mariupol, Ukraine, in the spring of 2022. It highlights the unique resources of the dramatic text, which is capable of reaching a wide audience, including outside Ukraine. Both the documentary and metaphorical potential of the text under study are analyzed, and interactive messages for various formats of its public presentation are collected. Since this text, in my opinion, is one of the most artistically powerful works about the tragedy of Mariupol and does not require special resources for presentation to audiences outside Ukraine (the monodrama is designed for only one female role), the purpose of the article is primarily to draw attention to it and reveal the multi-level nature of its metaphorical potential. Methodologically, I draw on cultural anthropology, gender studies, trauma studies, and memory studies, as well as traditional literary analysis of the poetics of dramatic works. The scientific novelty lies in the first literary reading of this text and the identification of its system of metaphorical levels, which correspond to confession, the initiation scheme of folk tales, theater of cruelty, horror films, stories about superhumans, and many other formats of cultural prototexts. The system of metaphors in the work is also realized through the dynamics of color and sound sequences, through the contemplation of the accumulation of dismembered/fragmented human bodies, the murder of children, and syndromes of hunger and emotional exhaustion. Such non-fictional testimonies must be heard outside Ukraine as the Ukrainian version of the events of spring 2022 and create Ukrainian contexts for the Mariupol text of war.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	war; documentary drama; testimony; memory; retrospective; Mariupol text
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Erih Plus Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет української філології, культури і мистецтва > Кафедра української літератури, компаративістики і грінченкознавства
Depositing User:	Олена Бондарева Бондарева
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2025 13:24
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2025 13:24
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/54538

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