The vision of the theatrical audience in the theatrical-critical discourse of Eastern Halychyna (Galicia) in the 1920s and 1930s

The article is devoted to the study of the image of the theatrical spectator of the Ukrainian theater in the theatrical-critical discourse of the period of 1920–1930. The theatrical spectator as an integral part of the theatrical process, and hence of theatrical history, is often underestimated by theater historians. However, even in theatrical-critical publications of this period we can trace certain composite images of the Ukrainian theatrical audience. The article explores what these images looked like, how they changed and how they can also look at the theatrical processes of time. The main source in which the image of the theatrical spectator of Eastern Halychyna (Galicia) "appeared" istheatrical-critical publications in the press of that time. In fact, two main images are formed: the Lviv public and the so-called "provincial" (although according to the press rhetoric of the time it included both spectators of large cities Stanislaviv, Ternopil, and smaller towns: Yavoriv, Stryi and others and spectators in villages). Each of these groups had its own characteristics and its own requests to the theater.