Military Costume in Ukrainian Theaters Performances of the First Half of the XX Century

Abstract

The purpose of the article is focused on the analysis of the distribution of military costumes in Ukrainian theatrical performances of the first half of the twentieth century. We consider the role and significance of military costumes as an important component of the construction of the mise-en-scène of the play and the means of creating its texture to be especially important here. Methodology. The methods used to achieve this goal are used in the sequence and interaction of the practice group and the theoretical group. First, based on a combination of cultural-historical and historical-comparative methods, it is important to trace the first examples of the appearance of characters in military costumes in the plot of the play and establish their meanings. Thus, historicism allows us to establish the main trends and traditions that emerged in the chronotypes of various performances. Given the need to superimpose images from the dramatic text on the images of characters and the composition of mise-en-scène, it is also necessary to use the hermeneutic method. The scientific novelty is due to the lack of academic works and publications on this topic, and therefore the article for the first time raises the question of the development of the typology of theatrical costume during the first half of the twentieth century. The conclusions obtained by the author during the analysis of the collected materials are based on the three most important points. Military costume in Ukrainian drama and performance was used in the XIX century as a marker of individual characters who particularly influenced the decision of the culminating events of the plot and were the bearers of special skills and abilities. The appearance of plots related to revolutionary events in the play makes the military costume on the stage popular. In the synthesis of the arts involved in the play, the military costume became the leading texture that formed the latest mythologies of characters and meanings in theatrical art.

Key words: military costume, the mythology of a military character, soldier-magician, someone else's costume.