- Creator
- Yara Arts Group (New York, N.Y.)
- Call number
- 8-MWEZ 30515
- Physical description
- .25 linear feet (1 box)
- Language
- Some of the material is in English, the rest is in Russian
- Preferred Citation
- Yara Arts Group ephemera, 8-MWEZ 30515. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Founded by Virlana Tkacz in 1990, the Yara Arts Group is a New York-based theater company dedicated to staging works on Ukrainian themes. Early in its existence the Yara Arts Group became a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in lower Manhattan. The troupe's first production was A LIGHT FROM THE EAST. One of the group's most widely publicized works was an adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka's 1911 play FOREST SONG, which in turn was based on a Ukrainian folk tale about the doomed romance between a wood nymph and a peasant boy. The piece, retitled YARA'S FOREST SONG, was adapted by Tkacz and African-American poet Wanda Phipps, and staged in Kiev and New York in 1994. Other pieces staged by Yara Arts Group include BLIND SIGHT, TIME IN BETWEEN, and WATERFALLS/REFLECTIONS. The Yara Arts Group ephemera consists of photocopies of clippings and articles, reviews, programs, and fifteen photographs from three of the group's productions, YARA'S FOREST SONG, BLIND SIGHT, and WATERFALLS/REFLECTIONS. Some of the material is in Russian.
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Billy Rose Theatre DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor