This year the festival was held under the slogan “Muses are not silent”.
, which took place on the stage of the Kirovohrad Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater. Evacuated theaters from Kharkiv and Mariupol, as well as invited theater groups from Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, performed at the festival.
This year, the event was held under the slogan “Muses are not silent.” The festival was held without announcements and posters, and tickets were not sold at the box office.
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The festival was opened by a performance by the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater ( Mariupol) “Cry of the Nation” about the life and fate of the dissident poet Vasyl Stus, tortured by the Soviet regime. This theater became known to the whole world when in March an aerial bomb was dropped on its building. Among the hundreds of people who sought refuge in the drama theater that day, there were also actors who appeared on the stage of the Krypnytskyi theater on September 20.
In addition, a joint project of the Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater was presented as part of the festival (” Berezil”), which is currently under evacuation, and the Vinnytsia Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater “Bread Truce” based on the play by Serhiy Zhadan.
The play tells the story of two brothers, which takes place in the summer of 2014 in Donetsk. The author himself took part in the creation of the production, made corrections in the process in cooperation with the director and producer Oleksandr Kovshun. The Kharkiv theater was evacuated from under shelling on March 3. It was Vinnytsia theatergoers who provided shelter to Kharkiv residents and now they give their performances together.
The organizers of the festival admit that they had doubts about holding it this year, with issues of funding and security at the fore. However, patrons volunteered to financially support participation in the festival of theaters from other cities.
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Kyiv Academic Drama Theater on Podil with the play “One Hundred Thousand” directed by Vitaly Malakhov, Chernihiv Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater also took part in the theater festival. T.G. Shevchenko with the play “The Taming of the Shrew” based on Yaroslav Stelmakh's play “Love in the Baroque Style”, Kirovohrad Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after M.L. Kropyvnytskyi with the production “The Price of Life” based on Karel Chapyk's play “Mothers” and the folk choreographic ensemble “Svitanok” with the requiem performance “Shadow of Spring”.
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