"Wall" is a unique performance. And it's so not just because it was produced at the request of the theater and actually in the course of rehearsals.
The uniqueness of the performance lies in the fact that it is based on two takes on the events that have taken place in the East of Ukraine in recent years. The first one is the way the director from Switzerland Thomas Mettler (a person who is familiar with...
"Wall" is a unique performance. And it's so not just because it was produced at the request of the theater and actually in the course of rehearsals.
The uniqueness of the performance lies in the fact that it is based on two takes on the events that have taken place in the East of Ukraine in recent years. The first one is the way the director from Switzerland Thomas Mettler (a person who is familiar with the current history of Ukraine indirectly and perceives it on a subconscious sensual level, trying to recreate the events with artistic expressive means, including body mobility, gesture, music, word, light) understands, feels the situation, tragedy. The other one is the point of view of the famous Ukrainian writer, poetess, screenwriter, translator Lyubov Yakymchuk, born in Pervomaysk, Luhansk region, whose life and creative work are full of pain, bitterness of the country being torn apart, of the people whom God blessed to survive and who found themselves behind the “wall” of aversion, misunderstanding, alienation.
The work by Lyubov Yakymchuk strikes with its extreme truthfulness, “uncomfortable” frankness, presentation of facts and realities that have fallen to the lot of the residents of the occupied territories. It is a synthesis of documentary, journalistic theater and poetry. But, in this case, poetry subordinates to the main topic, that is, the topic of break-up and strife, the violent destruction of the very concept of humanity and good.
