Les Kurbas Theatre (Lviv, Ukraine) was founded in 1988 by Volodymyr Kuchynskyi and a group of young actors. Since its inception, the Les Kurbas Theatre has grown into one of Ukraine’s most critically acclaimed theatres—both in Ukraine and abroad. Theatre always characterized with special high intellectual repertoire. Among it, wide recognition got its stage adaptations of such creations, which are significant for Ukrainian and European traditions: Hryhoriy Skovoda’s “Grace-give Erodii” and “Narkis” philosophical dialogues; F. Dostoyevski’s “Crime and Punishment” (“Dreams”, “Games for Faust” performances); Plato’s “Symposium” (“In Praise of Eros” and “Silenius Alcibiadis” performances); Vasyl Stus poetry (drama symphony “Marko Prokliaty, or the Legend from the East”), Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” and Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”. These productions have been invited to (and invariably taken prizes at) numerous international theatre festivals, including Moscow’s Chekhov and Slavic Laurel, Poland’s Kontakt, Cairo’s for Experimental Theatre, Romanian Sibiu, Ukrainian Bosporos Games and Golden Lion festivals. Les Kurbas Theatre also hosts its own biannual festival, “Theatre: Method and Practice”, and has collaborated in joint projects and workshops at the Gardzience Centre of Theatre Studies (Poland), The Workcentre of Jerzy Grotowski (Italy), Anatolii Vasiliev’s Studio at the School of Dramatic Art (Russia). Additionally, the theatre also conducts its workshops throughout Europe and America. In 2006 Les Kurbas Theatre got the greatest Ukrainian cultural reward – National Shevchenko’s Premium, and in 2007 Theatre got academic status.