The Bard as Modernist Revolutionary
A Canadian academic unearths the work of a Ukrainian genius September 2004
Les Kurbas
The story of theatre director Les Kurbas has “soon to be a major motion picture” written all over it. Any Hollywood star would kill for the role. Les Kurbas was a dashing, passionate, charismatic genius of the stage, “one of the great Soviet Stage directors of the early twentieth century, on a par with Meyerhold and…