Kurbas and Poland: Discovering / Returning

Maiia Harbuziuk

harbuzyuk.maya16@gmail.com
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6215-9477

Abstract

This article reviews Polish edition of Les’ Kurbas theatrical texts (Łeś Kurbas, Pisma tetatralne, Warszawa 2021) focusing on the editor’s, Anna Korzeniewska-Bihun, thematic-cum-problematic principle of organizing Kurbas’s legacy, as well as the merits of her well-researched introduction to the volume. The editor’s approach highlighted the conceptually important principles of Kurbas’s theatrical theory and , allowed her to cover his practical achievements and key performances, showing his worldview and the philosophical, creative, aesthetic, pedagogical, and organizational features of his legacy. The reviewer underlines the editor’s precision and consistency in outlining the key problems faced by Ukrainian theater in the first third of the twentieth century and the place of Les Kurbas in their solution. The edition opens up new horizons for research and discussion not only on Kurbas as a creator of Ukrainian avant-garde theater, but also on Polish-Ukrainians cultural ties.


Keywords:

Les’ Kurbas, Ukrainian avant-garde theater, national theater, Polish-Ukrainian theatrical relations

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2021-06-23

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Harbuziuk, M. (2021) “Kurbas and Poland: Discovering / Returning”, Pamiętnik Teatralny, 70(2), pp. 155–163. doi: 10.36744/pt.821.

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Maiia Harbuziuk 
harbuzyuk.maya16@gmail.com
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6215-9477

Theater historian, theater critic. A graduate of the Department of Theater Studies, I. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theater, Film and Television (1991). In 1991-2001 - employee of the literary department at the Mariya Zankovetska Lviv National Drama Theater. Since 1999 until now - Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (since 2011) of the Department of Theater Studies and Actors Art at the Faculty of Culture and Arts of Ivan Franko Lviv National University. Doctor of Arts (2020). Editor-in-Chief of the theater magazine "Proscaenium" of Ivan Franko Lviv National University. Chairwoman of the Theater Studies Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Author and co-author of a number of monographs and more than 240 articles on the history and theory of theater, in particular, on the history of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 17th-19th centuries.



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