The premiere took place at the Lesia Ukrainka Theater.
The Kyiv National Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka of the stage project “Blockpost”: a new play by a young Ukrainian author Anton Nesmiyanov within the creative action of the theater “We are from Ukraine. Stage readings”.
The peculiarity of the theater project is that it is actually the first stage address of the Ukrainian theater to the tragic theme of February 24, 2022, ie the day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine , – said theater critic Oleg Vergelis in his Telegram-channel “Theater. Little. Letters.” p>
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The director of “Blokpost” is Oleksandr Stepantsov, a young director, a student of M. Yu. Reznikovych and D. V. Babayev, the author of successful productions on the stage of the Lesia Ukrainka Theater Aldo Nicolai).
Recently, the director has been working on two plays about the war in parallel – the Slovak anti-fascist play “While the Rooster Sings” by Ivan Bukovčan about the events of World War II in Europe and a new play from the young Ukrainian author Anton Nesmiyanov “BLOCKPOST” about the events of the current Russian-Ukrainian war.
Nesmiyanov offered his text in the project of stage readings “We are from Ukraine”, within which the directors turn to modern and classical drama.
According to director Oleksandr Stepantsov, “the current tragedy of the Russian-Ukrainian war still needs time for modern authors to reflect in their new texts on the scale and abyss of this military and human catastrophe, but the value of new dramatic texts about the war. in the fact that in such texts there is an engraved pain of this moment, our present day of war, there are living wounds that irritate everyone, there are sincere emotions and creative anxiety of modern young authors. “At the Blokpost screening, the crowded hall breathed and lived with our actors both with a tragic theme and a military history,” said the director after the first screening of the project on the New Stage of the Lesia Ukrainka Kyiv Theater.
In the play “Blockpost” among the main characters is Grandfather, who stands guard at the checkpoint on the eve of the aggressor's invasion. His grandson hurries to help Grandpa, who does not immediately admit that during the grandfather's guard a full-scale invasion of the enemy on Ukrainian soil has already begun. Explosions, shootings and refugees at the checkpoint later open the eyes of the old grandfather to a real war, in which everyone will later take part …
In the role of Grandfather – one of the brightest actors of the troupe of the Lesia Ukrainka Theater, People's Artist of Ukraine Viktor Aldoshin (previously he played Vasily Kuzovkin in the play “Nakhlibnyk”).
In the role of Grandson – a young actor Mikhail Ganev./p>
Actors Ksenia Nikolaeva, Oleksandra Yena, Oleksiy Polishchuk, Vitaliy Ovcharov, Stanislav Boyko, Viktor Semirozumenko are also involved in the stage project “Blockpost”.
The artist of the project is Olena Drobna.
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People's Artist of Ukraine Ksenia Nikolaeva, who plays a mysterious heroine in the “Blockpost” called “The One Who Goes”, said in a comment to our publication: “It seems to me that such a topic and such a project are absolutely necessary today reaction to this life and as a creative union of all artists who worked on the project: young author, young director, actors of the Lesia Ukrainka National Theater. and hopes in the current terrible wartime. After all, theater is a strong psychological medicine and motivation to win and own strength. With the director Alexander Stepantsov and all partners there was a real theatrical collaboration. And it's really cool! “.
Director Oleksandr Stepantsov tells our publication that some actors of the Lesia Ukrainka Theater are involved in two of his military theatrical projects at the same time: Anton Nesmiyanov's current “Blockpost” and Ivan Bukovchan's upcoming play “While the Rooster Sings”. Rehearsals of the Slovak anti-fascist play began on April 28 and it is too early to talk about the premiere prospects: the director hopes that the new play will appear immediately after the Victory.
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