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10/02/2023

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Bertolt Brecht

Director: Dmytro Bogomazov

Berthold Brecht came up with the idea of his play in 1935, in America, in forced emigration. At that time, in his native country, in Germany, Nazism had already been ascending but no one knew how huge it would become. Brecht implemented his idea only six years later. In 1941, when the play was finished, Germany had already invaded most of continental Europe – a large-scale and bloody war was spreading across the world. Brecht foreboded the upcoming catastrophe and tried to warn about it. “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” is a satirical anti-fascist pamphlet on Hitler and his...

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25/02/2023

Richard ІІІ

William Shakespeare

Director: Avtandil Varsimashvili

One of the main topics for the authors of the performance was the meticulous study of the essence of dangerous and incomprehensible labyrinths of the psychology of a lonely person, humiliated both by nature and by others. There is the dialectics of transforming suffering into criminality and tyranny. Paradoxically, Richard's disability gives him inner freedom and a whimsical sense of power over people, in the director's interpretation. Richard is the hermit. He is deprived of real feelings. And as a skillful master of puppets and virtuoso actor, he starts the “fun” created by his sick mind. The thrill of the...

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17/02/2023

Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen

Director: Ivan Uryvskyi

Dedicated to Serhii Danchenko and Bohdan Stupka The dramatic poem “Peer Gynt” (1867) by Henrik Ibsen is considered to be one of the greatest achievements of the world drama. It seems to have absorbed all the cross-cutting issues and themes that have troubled humanity for centuries: what the meaning of human life is, what the sacramental “being yourself” means, how not to betray yourself in search of the true purpose, how to find the strength to resist a variety of temptations that are always somewhere near you. As a large-scale philosophical canvas implies, the plot of the play is expansive and...

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02/02/2023

Stolen happiness

Ivan Franko

Director: Dmytro Bohomazov

“Stolen Happiness” by Ivan Franko, which is one of the most popular plays in Ukrainian literature and the most significant one for Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater, is staged again at the end of the anniversary 100th theatrical season. The new version suggested by the director Dmytro Bohomazov is fundamentally different from many well-known interpretations. The director presents the play, which is modern in terms of its stage language, and thus deviates from social and domestic, ethnographic details. The story of the triangle Mykola-Anna-Mykhailo is transformed into a multi-layered psychological parable not only about the impossibility of building happiness...

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12/02/2023

Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

Director: Yuriy Odynokyy

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

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31/01/2023

Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Director: Tatiana Arkushenko

The focus is on a small American family. The mother dreams of the successful future of her children and tells about her past success all the time. The daughter lives in the world of fragile illusions. And the son dreams of doing creative work, but works in a shoe store instead. There is the father in the play. He left them many years ago and went wandering. His wife had nothing to do but support her family, including her little son, all alone.

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16/02/2023

Adventure of Nykodym Dyzma

based on the play by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz "Career of Nykodym Dyzma"

Director: Dmytro Chyrypiuk

The plot and the course of events that happened to the main character Nykodym Dyzma is unreal and surreal to a certain extent. An average person from a small town moves from the periphery to the capital in search of a better life. He has neither education nor specialty, and the only thing he wants is to find a cushy job to live calmly and prosperously, if possible, with little effort. They say fools for luck, or God fell asleep on the job... But one day, accidentally (or not accidentally), he gets a letter of invitation to a social event...

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18/02/2023

Fine Franko Fusion

Director: David Petrosyan

Fine Franko Fusion is not just a concert, it's a room for a crazy musical experiment, where everything is possible! Today, more than ever, we strive to fully reveal the incredible beauty of our native Ukrainian ethnicity, both in its original authentic sound and in the light of modern arrangements and jazz improvisations. We are convinced that even the most demanding music connoisseur will find gems in our concert.

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