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as enrolled students. His students would present their work at his
Kolyada Theater in Yekaterinburg. Kolyada founded his theatre in 2001 - it has changed venue in Yekaterinburg several times. His is cited as one of the few playwriting programs in Russia, and several of his students have gone on to be produced in the more demanding venues of Moscow. Two of Kolyada's students,
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After living and working in Moscow for a time, Kolyada returned to
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When he began writing for the theater in the mid-1980s, Kolyada got a reputation for "chernukha", which critic John
Freedman describes as an "almost untranslatable but expressive Russian noun shades of gloom, doom, bile, and jaundice colored with foul-mouthed-insolence." His plays were known for
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As a director, Kolyada is known for stark and dramatic productions using minimalist scenery and a stylized performance style. Critic John
Freedman described the design of one production as typical of Kolyada's approach. He wrote, "The use of water and the sheet of plastic are characteristic of
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their naturalistic approach to representing life's banal and pitiful troubles. His plays were among the first in Russia to use profanity, and are known for it. His scant use of profanity violated taboo at the time, but set the stage for much more pervasive obscenities by 2010.
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Korneeva Vremya wrote in 2002 that she found his directing style to be "touching," but repetitive, and ultimately "artless," writing that "an abundance of superfluous detail and endless strolls across the stage to music are no style. They are a disaster."
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a "center of modern drama." Kolyada is one of the first
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