Ovchiieva L. Acting creative activity of Lyubov Linytska in the theatrical process of Ukraine at the late XIX – early XX centuries.

ABSTRACT L. P. Ovchiieva. Acting creative activity of Lyubov Linytska in the theatrical process of Ukraine at the late XIX – early XX centuries. – Qualifying scientific work retaining manuscript copyright. Dissertation for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the specialty 026 "Stage Art". – I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television Kyiv, 2024. Relevance. The end of XIX and the beginning of XX centuries was a time of tectonic movements in artistic and stage practices. The renewal of intellectual and aesthetic senses and the introduction of European creative inspirations into the domestic cultural context contributed to the discovery and formation of a new generation of artists who showed extraordinary psychophysical plasticity in the creation of stage images. One of the representatives of this generation of actors was Lyubov Linytska, who successfully combined the performance of roles, already traditional at that time, of the repertoire with the "first reading" of characters in modern drama, which was just making its way onto the Ukrainian stage. The organicity and integrity of L. Linytska's acting style while mastering a diversity of dramaturgical material made her a prominent figure in the theatrical process. This is clearly evidenced by the appearance of lifetime works dedicated to her work. However, later social and ideological conflicts of the 20-30s of XX century begin to dissonance with the logic of stylistic diversity as dominant in stage practice. In the end, the totalitarian pressure on the artistic environment leads to the suppression, and sometimes the destruction, in the literal sense, of the artists involved in this creative mainstream. L. Linytska was lucky to avoid repression. She was not expelled from the profession. She continued to actively realize herself on the Ukrainian scene. However, she fell out of sight of stage creativity researchers for many years. Of course, there are certain publications and occasional mentions of her stage work, but a comprehensive objective analysis of the actress's work and a detailed reconstruction of her stage achievements still do not exist, which obviously oversimplifies our ideas about the dynamics of creative pursuits in the late XIX and early XX centuries. The fragmentary nature of the information about L. Linytska's creative contribution to the renewal of her contemporary stage actions did not allow to fully evaluate and comprehend all the informative possibilities of artistic processes, an integral part of which was definitely the wide stage practice of the actress at different stages of her work. Taking into account the above, the relevance of the topic of this study is determined by the need for careful research and reconsideration of the work of L. Linytska, as an important and integral component of the domestic theatrical process. The scientific novelty of this research lies in the comprehensive approach to understanding the creative heritage of Lyubov Linytska against the background of artistic searches of the late XIX and early XX centuries. Thanks to a large array of source bases, identified, studied and introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, it was possible to re-conceptualize the creative heritage of the actress as a reflection of paradigmatic trends in stage practices of the time. The evolution of the features of the actress' performance manner in different periods of her creative path has been carefully studied and revealed. The collected material made it possible to compile a detailed repertoire list of the actress’s roles, which will become an important asset for the Ukrainian scientific community in the study and reproduction of historical events of the theatrical process of Ukraine. The picture of the vision of the creative work of L. Linytska by theater critics both during the life of the actress and from a distance of time has been restored. In this way, the historiography of publications dedicated to the actress's works was reproduced as accurately as possible, which proved the absence of a coherent and consistent study of her works. The modern actualization of scientific interest in the artistic processes that took place at the turn of the century determines the importance of a new reading of the role of L. Linitskaya as one of the representative creative dominants of that time. For the first time, the study paid attention to determining the scale of influence of an individual creative personality on the formation of a wide range of creative stage concepts of that time.