HEROIZATION OF THE YOUNG GUARDS’ FEAST IN THE STAGE PRACTICE OF LUGANSK THEATERS AS A MANIFESTATION OF THE HISTORICAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION OF THE REGION

In the world philosophical and aesthetic tradition, the idea of a hero as a spiritually and physically perfect person who, performing a feat, becomes the personification of worthy behavior has been formed. In a feat, the inner strength, strongwilled and moral qualities of the individual, the ability to rise above the ordinary, to destroy the boundaries of the possible are most clearly manifested. An analysis of the historiography of Lugansk theaters allows us to state that the ideological context of the time determined the repeated appeal of Lugansk theaters in the Soviet period of their formation to the heroic theme. The historical self-identification of the region led Lugansk directors to turn to the historical events that took place in the Lugansk region during the Civil War, the Great Patriotic War. The article examines the problem of the heroic personality of the Young Guard through the prism of director's work, which is a category of feat, which is determined by a set of personal properties. The study provides an analysis of the creative practice of Lugansk theaters of the 20th century. and modernity from the standpoint of understanding the feat of the Young Guard. It is noted that the historical self-identification of the region led the Lugansk directors to turn to the historical events that took place in the Lugansk region during the Great Patriotic War, as a result of which the performances "The Young Guard", feat of the youth.