Les' Kurbas, The Theater Work of Les' Kurbas

Yelena Severina (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1915 - 1933

Places

Ukraine (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Drama

Resources

Les′ Kurbas (1887–1937) was an actor, director, producer, and the founder of modern Ukrainian theater. He belonged to the generation of artists known as the “Executed Renaissance”, who lost their lives during the Stalin purges of the 1920s–1930s. Born in Galicia to a family of actors, Kurbas developed an interest in the stage during his childhood while watching his parents perform at the Rus′ka Besida, Ukraine’s first professional acting company. As a young man, he travelled to Vienna where he studied philosophy and drama in 1907–1908. There he attended acting classes taught by the Austrian actor Josef Kainz and frequented stage productions by leading European theaters. This experience …

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

3182 words

Citation: Severina, Yelena. "The Theater Work of Les' Kurbas". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 March 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39070, accessed 20 April 2024.]

Save this article