Odessa Ukrainian Theater is preparing a premiere in the basement of the play “Victory over Death” by Natalia Vorozhbyt

Preliminarily, the premiere of the play will take place in late April.

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At the end of April, closed screenings of the premiere performance of the Vasyl Vasylko Odessa Ukrainian Academic Theater – “Sasha, take out the trash!” based on a play by Natalia Vorozhbyt directed by the theater's director Maxim Golenko.

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During the martial law, all Ukrainian theaters suspended their activities, including the Odessa Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Vasyl Vasylko. Therefore, the idea to stage the famous play by N. Vorozhbyt about the painful phantoms of war first arose in theater artists as unscheduled, as an independent work, because the desire for creative activity is almost every artist who remained in wartime in the city on the Black Sea. Later, on March 16, the directorate of the Odessa Ukrainian Theater named after V. Vasylko prepared a corresponding order on the current repertoire plan, which included a new play “Sasha, take out the trash!”: Director – Maxim Golenko, artist – Julia Zaulichna, plastic solution – Paul Ivlyushkin, Denis Grigoruk, music – Vadym Bessarab, cast: Igor Gerashchenko, Alexander Samusenko, Ninel Natocha, Irina Okhotnichenko, Inna Bulbotko.

Natalia Vorozhbyt's play “Sasha, take out the garbage!” dated 2014, ie the period when the Russian Federation captured the East of Ukraine and annexed Crimea. The play Fortune Teller is quite compact (there are only three actors: Oksana, Katya and Sasha), and the action balances on the border of reality and unreality, provoking the motives of painful phantoms of war. The play was staged quite actively abroad, and among the Ukrainian directors of the new wave, Tamara Trunova (Kyiv, Young Theater), Stas Zhirkov (staged in Vilnius, Lithuania), as well as director and choreographer Maksym Bulgakov turned to Sasha. Luhansk Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater).

As for Maksym Golenko, he is a long-time admirer of N. Vorozhbyt's drama, and in 2016 the Ukrainian director staged her play “Eyelashes” as part of the “Wild East” project during his residency in Germany (“Eyelash” and “Kaidashi 2.0”). “N. Vorozhbyt in the production of M. Golenko successfully played in the Kiev” Wild Theater “). Maksym Golenko is addressing Sasha for the first time in Odesa. The director emphasizes that in fact the only Ukrainian theater in the Odessa region should keep the bar of strategically and patriotically important institution of Ukrainian culture in this difficult time of war and articulate important social and artistic meanings and messages based on modern Ukrainian drama. Currently, the director is rehearsing on the big stage of the Odessa Ukrainian Theater, although the play itself, according to the artistic design of the main director, “the actors will play under the stage, in the basement of the theater. Now we are rehearsing “upstairs” so as not to get cold in the basement. “

Previously, the new basement stage space of the Odessa Ukrainian Theater will be able to accommodate about 50 theatergoers. And most likely, it will be a “closed” closed show of the new play, given all the challenges of the present. Yulia Pyvovarova, artistic director of the Odessa Theater, says ZN.UA that the exact dates of the premiere at the end of April are currently being agreed with the city and regional administrations, taking into account all the realities of wartime.

Asked by our publication: span> What will the upcoming play based on the play The Fortune Teller? “, director Maxim Golenko succinctly replied:” On the victory over death! “. Given that the new play will feature “live music” (and this is a spoiler!), The chances of winning are significant.

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Based on materials: ZN.ua

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