Technicism in the Ukrainian avant-garde theatre : a clash of meanings and forms

Hanna Veselovska

doi:10.5817/TY2022-1-3

Technicism in the Ukrainian avant-garde theatre : a clash of meanings and forms

Vol.25,No.1(2022)

Hanna Veselovska

https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2022-1-3

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/145137

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Abstract

The article examines the impact of technicism on the Ukrainian avant-garde theatre and how the subject of industrialisation was treated on stage as a result. Based on performances directed by Boris Glagolin (Ukraine), Les Kurbas (Ukraine), Erwin Piscator (Germany), Alexander Tairov (Russia), Igor Terentiev (Ukraine) and stage designed by Oleksandr Khvostenko-Khvostov (Ukraine), Vadym Meller (Ukraine), Anatol Petrytsky (Ukraine), and others, the author analyses the two varied trends on stages, both of which were a product of the evolving ideological tasks facing the European and Ukrainian theatres in the 1920s–1930s. A tendency that arose at some point among the aforementioned avant-garde directors to make a parody out of technicism-related ideas is also discussed.

Keywords:
avant-garde theatre; technicism; urbanism; industrialisation

Pages:
27–43

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