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Stepan Vasylchenko was not only a talented novelist, author of short stories and other prose works. His plays are also of interest, as they played a role in the development and formation of Ukrainian drama and the new theatre, which always attracted the writer. Back in the pre-revolutionary period, he wrote a number of plays (The Enchantress, The First Gully, The Underdog, etc.), which are similar in their themes to his prose works. The play-joke "On the First Gully" is the most staged.

Stepan Vasylchenko (1878-1932) was a writer of folk art who defended the originality of Ukrainian art and its connection with the national tradition. Vasylchenko's work is characterised by poetisation of the national Ukrainian character, strengthening of the emotional and evaluative principle and in-depth psychological analysis.