Ukrainian Theater Actresses in Eastern Galicia

• Main Author: Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2020-11-01
• Series: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Subjects: feminism; ukrainian theater; ukrainian theater actresses; trajectories of experience
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/441

This article offers a typology of the experiences of Ukrainian theater actresses in Eastern Galicia from the end of the 19th to the first half of the 20th centuries, identifying the most common artistic and biographical trajectories that make up the particular continuities of women’s collective cultural experience. The “images” of these Ukrainian actress are delineated according to how they were constructed by the contemporary Ukrainian press, and their peculiarities are identified in accordance with the specifics of the activities of Ukrainian theater in Eastern Galicia during the period in question.