Modernist Theatre | Kultura 2026
Date and time:
Wednesday 25 November, 2026
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
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An innovative theatre director, Les Kurbas staged experimental productions in Kyiv and Kharkiv during the 1920s, transforming our idea of what theatre can be. The seminar explores his work in these two cities, focusing on shows that examined fundamental issues in world theatre and innovated with its formal qualities. We will also place Kurbas in dialogue with his principal collaborators, the writer Mykola Kulish and the artist Vadym Meller.
General £35 Student £25
Lecturer
Virlana Tkacz, Yara Arts Group, New York City
Virlana Tkacz is a theatre director, curator, poet and translator. She is the founding director of Yara Arts Group, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York. With Yara, she has created over forty original theatre pieces since 1990. Virlana graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in theatre directing, writing her thesis on Les Kurbas. In 2010 together with Irena Makaryk, she edited Modernism in Kyiv, published by University of Toronto Press. From 2017 to 2018 she co-curated a series of museum exhibitions, culminating in Kurbas: New Worlds at Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex.