The creative path of Mark Kropyvnytsky

The television film "The First Among Equals" is dedicated to the life and creative path of the Ukrainian playwright, actor and composer Mark Kropyvnytsky.

On the video: Kirovograd (now the city of Kropyvnytsky), various plans of the city, commemorative plaques dedicated to the Ukrainian playwright; photographs of Mark Kropyvnytsky; Kropyvnytsky's grandmother's house, the church where he sang in the choir in his youth; Mykhailo Barsky talks about the beginning of Mark Kropyvnytsky's creative path, the story is accompanied by photographs of the composer from different years; comments by artists about the phenomenon and contribution to Ukrainian culture of Mark Kropyvnytsky.

Comments: chief director of the Kirovograd Music and Drama Theater Mykhailo Barsky; actors of the Kirovograd Music and Drama Theater Maryna Yenina, Volodymyr Myronovych; director Kyiv Drama and Comedy Theater Oleksiy Lisovets; actors of the Kyiv Drama and Comedy Theater Oleksandr Hannochenko, Valentyn Shestopalov; art historian Arkady Drak.

The film uses materials from the State Film, Photo and Audio Archive of Ukraine.

Reference: Marko Kropyvnytskyi is a Ukrainian playwright, actor, director and theater figure, with whose name the formation of professional Ukrainian theater in Dnieper Ukraine is associated. He became one of the founders of the Theater of the Luminaries, formed a national acting school and created a number of dramatic works that determined the further development of the Ukrainian stage. His activities were of key importance for the establishment of Ukrainian theatrical culture as an independent artistic phenomenon.