Bandera's discourse in Tetiana Kytsenko's play “Green Tomatoes”

Бондарева, Олена Євгенівна (2025) Bandera's discourse in Tetiana Kytsenko's play “Green Tomatoes” Літературний процес: методологія, імена, тенденції (26). pp. 6-18. ISSN 2311-2433, 2412-2475

Text O_Bondareva_LPMIT_26_FUFKM.pdf - Published Version Download (834kB)

Abstract

This article presents the first literary analysis of Tetiana Kytsenko's play Green Tomatoes (2024), written in Sweden during the Rikstolvan Residency under the TUA program and dedicated to the search for new artistic resources for working with the image of Stepan Bandera. The playwright has shown by her own example that it is possible to talk about Bandera through the medium of theater today: the play creates a situation of choice for Ukrainian refugees—whether to dare to do a theater project about Bandera in other European countries, in particular Germany and Poland, where the official attitude towards Bandera is extremely biased, or, on the contrary, to listen to local grantors and choose a neutral, less provocative topic for themselves. My goal is to interpret the play Green Tomatoes in terms of the author's vision of its key concept – Stepan Bandera – against the backdrop of the current stage of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression. Methodologically, I will work with theatrical anthropology, ritual-mythological practices, interpretive shifts in artistic biographies, and post-classical theories of the actor/victim, and I will also take into account the model of “network theater.” Influenced by their acquaintance with contemporary visions of European theaters, which are constantly involved in public discussion of issues that are under-discussed or marginalized by political institutions, Ukrainian playwrights have scaled up their practices of creating vivid, sharply polemical dramatic texts. In particular, the conversation about Stepan Bandera as one of the trends in the dramaturgy of new Ukrainian refugees has already taken place in the plays Green Corridors by Natalkia Vorozhbit and Keep the Light by Polina Polozhentseva. In her play Green Tomatoes, T. Kitsenko successfully combines elements of Stepan Bandera's political biography, presented in a heuristic manner, with the theater-network model and techniques of contemporary screen arts, supplemented by network activities. This allows the female artists in her play to rethink their civic identity and their involvement in the present and future fate of Ukraine and Ukrainian identity.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	war; refugees; Bandera; myth; ritual; theater network; post-classical dramatic text
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Erih Plus Статті у базах даних > Index Copernicus Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions:	Факультет східних мов > Кафедра японської мови і перекладу
Depositing User:	Олена Бондарева Бондарева
Date Deposited:	31 Dec 2025 08:37
Last Modified:	31 Dec 2025 08:37
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/55768

Actions (login required)

View Item