If there isn’t (is) tomorrow? Perception of the of the future in the Belarusian drama at the end of the XX – beginning of the XXI century

In the focus of the article are the plays of Belarusian playwrights belonging to elder (A. Dudarev, E. Popova, A. Delendik, S. Bartokhova) and younger (N. Orekhovsky, D. Balyko, K. Steshik, D. Bogoslavski, P. Pryazhko) generations, who problematized the future of their heroes. The article identifies different models of percepting future by the post-Soviet man of the future: the idea of a “bright future”, admits the link between the past – present – future, the location of consciousness in the present, the eschatological vision of the future. We determined the authors’ aesthetic strategies of their realization at the level of a character and a chronotope, that allow typological parallels with Russian drama (E. Popova – “a new wave”, D. Balyko, K. Steshik, D. Bogoslavski – “a new drama”)