Вінницький період історії Хмельницького обласного академічного музично-драматичного театру імені Михайла Старицького (1934-1937 рр.)

Abstract

The purpose of the article. To investigate the history of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Academic Music and Drama Th eater named aft er Mykhailo Starytskyi during its stay in Vinnytsia (1934-1937), to study the creative progress of the team against the background of the era, to fi nd out the peculiarities of its economic life and everyday life. Research methods: the article uses general scientifi c and specifi c-historical research methods, which made it possible to achieve its goal and fulfi ll the set tasks. Th e main thing is the use of the method of analysis and synthesis, which made it possible to study the general trends of the historical progress of Ukrainian theatrical art in the fi rst half of the 1930s through the study of individual compo- nents. Th e scientifi c novelty consists in the comprehensive coverage of the functioning of one of the Ukrainian theaters during the active formation of Soviet totalitarianism and the creation on this basis of an objective picture of the development of national stage art in the era of Stalinism. Conclusions. Th e economic and creative components of the theater’s activity in the Vinnytsia period depended on the peculiarities of the socio-economic and political transformations of Ukrainian society in the fi rst half of the 1930s of the 20th century. Th e economic dependence of the theater group on state funding, the lack of its own premises and constant relocations made it completely dependent on the prevailing political and ideological situation, deprived it of freedom of creativity and limited the artistic search within the framework of “socialist realism”