Author’s strategies for organizing dialogue with a teenager in the <i>Own Territory</i> project plays<sup>1</sup>

The festival of collaborative laboratories Own Territory. The Territory of Co-creation has been held in Omsk since 2022 and involves the joint work of playwrights, teachers, psychologists and schoolchildren. Basing on the analysis of plays created within the framework of this project, relevant material for teenage drama is presented in the article. Specifics of reader/viewer expectations and author’s strategies for interacting with recipients are indicated. The genesis of modern teenage drama, dating back to the traditions of the play for adults of the late XIXth century and the turn of the XXth-XXIst centuries, as well as the transformation of its traditions in the field of organizing a dialogue with the viewer, are especially considered.