MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION POLICY OF UKRAINE

Gelsomino in the country of liars

based on Gianni Rodari

Gelsomino is born with an unusually loud voice that breaks things if he speaks above a whisper, and ultimately makes him an outcast. Leaving his home he wanders into the strange Land of the Liars where it is mandated by law that no one shall ever speak the truth.

He meets friends and enemies, he faces his own fears as well as some serious battles. He lives out the adventure of a lifetime. Finally, Gelsomino finds...

Authors

Director / Diana Aishe
Artistic director of the play / Petro Ilchenko
Set & costume designer / Kateryna Markush
Choreographer / Olha Semioshkina
Theatrical lighting / Yaroslav Marchuk, Olena Antohina
Composer / Tetiana Shamshetdinova
Chorus master / Anatolii Navrotskyi
Musical Director / Volodymyr Hdanskyi
Sound operators / Oleksandr Plisa, Vladyslav Kolomiichenko, Ihor Gordienko
Animated cartoon / Lev Kormych
Deputy stage manager / Dmytro Gulenko

Gallery

CAST

Gelsomino / Pavlo Shpegun,
Kalimero / Renat Settarov, Bohdan Adamenko, Oleh Voronko
Guard 2, Police officer / Dmytro Lukianenko, Oleh Ternovyi
Guard 1, Police officer / Roman Bozhko, Dmytro Lukianenko

Participants of the performance are orchestra and ballet artists 

24/12/2017
Estimated run time 2 hours
Musical tale in two acts