Lesya Ukrainka’s creativity in the aesthetic parameters of modern national puppet theatre
Authors: Doroshenko Valentina , Umanets Olga 
Published: March 2021

Problem statement: topicality, novelty, methodology of the research. The logical grounds of this article are a requirement of the scientific understanding of specific of Lesya Ukrainka’s work in the national puppet theatre and absence of articles from the marked question. Based on the comparative, diachronicsynchronic, historical, evolutional methods and principles of analytical and culturological approaches, the aim of the article – creation of panorama of the works by Lesya Ukrainka in the Ukrainian puppet theatre of last XX – early XXI century, with the exposure of specific of their interpretations, – is realized as an innovative element of the reseach. The results of the study. Lesya Ukrainka’s work, as a representation of the Ukrainian culture polyphony and Ukrainian nation’s mental horizons specificity, purchased sign status and meaningfulness of the modern scale conceptual, vivid, thematic and expression field for the intensive creative searches of modern representatives of national puppet theatre. Meaningfulness of the creative inheritance by Lesya Ukrainka in the context of the Ukrainian puppet theatre is certified by it representation on the All-Ukrainian festivals, and also activation of it introducing to the modern repertoire of puppet theatre. Research of aesthetic parameters of the specific versions of Lesya Ukrainka’s works allows to establish the presence of certain repertoire dominants – such as the “Forest song”; gravitation to implementation of the earlier not typical for the puppet theatre works as the “Old fairy tale”, and the creation of original presentations, such as the “Lesya Ukrainka. Woman fate”, “Lesya’s letters” (in particular, on the base of epistolary inheritance by authoress). The specifics of embodiment of Lesya Ukrainka’s works in the Ukrainian puppet theatre of last XX – early XX century lays in their inter-textual modification, gravitation to creation of associative artistic space and to use the unconventional systems of dolls (plane- silhouette paper doll in presentation the “Old fairy tale”). In accordance with originality of conceptual foundation of Lesya Ukrainka’s works – drama of ideas – the modern stage directors appeal to the dramaturgical type that marked by secondariness of eventfulness relatively to poetics based on updating of palette of facilities of expressiveness and ideological concepts. Such innovations in “re-reading” of works by the authoress is a dialogue of doll and living acting, that creates two dimensions in development of action (“Stone Lord”, “Forest song”), the symbolic manipulations with the piece of paper (“Lesya’s letters”), creation of synthetic artistic space of the spectacle, that combine light, color, elements of shadows theatre and theatre of reader, living acting, work with the dolls of different constructions and like other, and also intention to the conscious limiting of facilities of expressiveness (monochrome and maximum narrowing space of scenic action in interpretation of the“Forest song”). An innovative touch in the puppet versions of Lesya Ukrainka’s works is the accentuation of mental markers of the national worldview, saturation with the national attributes and folk rites, which to the attraction of contemporary artists to revive the sources of national spiritual culture. In the pluralism of puppet representations, Lesya Ukrainka’s work is marked by a general tendency to philosophical and innovative affirmation of the national foundations of the worldview and the creation of a synthetic artistic space. Conclusion. Lesya Ukrainka’s work is an open and inexhaustible thematic line for the modern national puppet theatre not only due to the lack of an established tradition of its embodiment. Philosophical, symbolic, appealed to the foundations of the national worldview the contents of her work and unbreakable connection of it with world art culture – the attributive features of the creative world of the writer, which determine its timeless relevance for contemporary artists, the conceptual and expressive diversity of its interpretations.