The Les Kurbas Theater: the New Expressive Means of Acting

The purpose of the article is to reveal the characteristic features of acting skills, using the new expressive means of acting in the context of the development of the new Les Kurbas Theater. The research methodology was based on the principle of the cultural-historical approach, which allows for highlighting the cultural process during the 1920s–1930s. The following methods were used: evolutionary, comparative-historical, and functional. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the disclosure of the features of L. Kurbas’s idea of impersonation of a stage image and the new means of acting skills associated with it. Conclusions. The new expressive means of acting in the context of the formation of the new Les Kurbas Theater multiplied the contemporary world experience of theatrical culture, strengthened and continued the hereditary chain of creative search for the ways of actor’s impersonation. The experience of acting skills of the famous Ukrainian and foreign theater luminaries, such as Bertolt Brecht, Nicholas Evreinov, Gordon Craig, Les Kurbas, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Hnat Yura, etc., which allows for revealing the reformist ideas of the art of acting, differentiating their essence and finding a school with the corresponding principles and methods of acting skills, is very important for the modern generation of actors.