JUBILEE 85TH THEATER SEASON

THE JUBILEE 85TH THEATER SEASON WILL BE FILLED WITH COLLABORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE AND RESTORATION OF A SELF-WORTH SENSE  TO ENTER THE INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN ARENA AND CREATE A MODERN CULTURAL CONTEXT OF UKRAINE.

WE ARE STARTING THIS YEAR THE TRADITION OF OPENING THE THEATER SEASON ON THE BIRTHDAY OF IVAN FRANKO, THE PATRON OF OUR CITY AND OUR THEATER .

THERE ARE 12 PREMIERES FROM THE BEST DIRECTORS OF UKRAINE AND FROM OUR EUROPEAN COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS.

"THIS IS THE SEASON FOR WHICH I PERSONALLY AND OUR TEAM HAVE BEEN GOING FOR A VERY LONG TIME. MUCH HAS BEEN DONE BY OUR LUMINARIES, WHO LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR THEATER AND ITS HANDWRITING FOR 85 YEARS. THIS IS ALSO THE HUGE WORK OF THE LAST 10-15 YEARS, WHICH FORMED THE NEWEST FACE OF OUR THEATER, BECAUSE IT WAS A CLEAR MOVEMENT TOWARDS EUROPE AND THE WORLD," SAYS ROSTYSLAV DERZHYPILSKYI.

TO THE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF UKRAINE, WE WILL TRADITIONALLY PLAY A PLAY ON MOUNT PIP IVAN, ON AUGUST 24 AT 3:00 P.M., A VIDEO BROADCAST OF THE PARABLE-ORATORIO "SHE - EARTH" BY VASYL STEFANYK WILL TAKE PLACE ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES.

ON AUGUST 27, WE OFFICIALLY OPEN THE SEASON WITH THE PREMIERE OF "CHILLINESS AND LOVE" BY FRIEDRICH SCHILLER. IVAN URYVSKYI, ONE OF THE BEST DIRECTORS OF OUR TIME, IS WORKING ON THE PRODUCTION TOGETHER WITH HIS PRODUCTION TEAM FROM THE KYIV NATIONAL THEATER NAMED AFTER IVAN FRANKO AND THE ODESA THEATER NAMED AFTER V. VASYLKA

DURING OCTOBER, THE PREMIERE OF THE WORK OF THE MODERN UKRAINIAN WRITER IRENE ROZDOBUDKO "WITHERED FLOWERS ARE THROWN AWAY" , ON WHICH ROSTYSLAV DERZHYPILSKYI AND NAZARII PANIV WILL WORK.

BY THE END OF THE YEAR, 2 MORE PRODUCTIONS BY FOREIGN DIRECTORS ARE PLANNED. YOKUBAS BRAZIS, A DIRECTOR FROM LITHUANIA, WILL WORK ON CREATING A PLAY BASED ON SARTRE'S WORK. AND MIHAI TARNA, A DIRECTOR FROM MOLDOVA, WILL PRESENT HIS VISION OF THE SPANISH CLASSIC "DON QUIXOTE". IN DECEMBER, THE LONG-AWAITED PREMIERE OF THE PRODUCTION "THE KAIDASH FAMILY" BY ROSTYSLAV DERZHYPILSKYI WITH IRMA VITOVSKA IN THE LEAD ROLE AWAITS US . FOR FAMILY VIEWING, OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR WILL PREPARE A UKRAINIAN FAIRY TALE IN A MODERN INTERPRETATION.

IN JANUARY, NAZARII PANIV WILL PREPARE A PREMIERE ON THE CHAMBER STAGE OF OUR THEATER, IT WILL BE A PRODUCTION BASED ON THE WORK OF THE AUSTRIAN AUTHOR LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASUICH

IN FEBRUARY, THE CHIEF DIRECTOR OF THE KHERSON THEATER NAMED AFTER KULISH SERHII PAVLYUK WILL PRESENT HIS VISION OF THE PRODUCTION OF "NAPOLEON AND THE CORSICAN WOMAN" BASED ON THE CZECH PLAYWRIGHT JIRI HUBACH.

BEFORE THE SHEVCHENKO DAYS, ROSTYSLAV DERZHYPILSKYI WILL PREPARE A PRODUCTION BASED ON TARAS SHEVCHENKO, AND ALREADY IN APRIL, THE PREMIERE OF THE PLAY BY TOMI JANEŽYCH, THE CULT DIRECTOR OF SLOVENIA - THE STAGE WORK "1975" WILL TAKE PLACE.

A PERFORMANCE BY NAZARII PANIV IS PLANNED FOR MAY - WE ARE CURRENTLY INTRIGUED BY THE MATERIAL. ALSO IN MAY, WE PLANNED TO RESUME THE THEATER FESTIVAL, WHICH WAS CALLED "SEASON PREMIERES" AND LATER GREW INTO "THEATRE TIME". WE WANT THIS FORUM TO GATHER THE BEST THEATRICAL UKRAINIAN PREMIERES AND IN THIS WAY WE CAN FORM A SO-CALLED UKRAINIAN SHOWCASE.

FOR THE FINALE OF THE THEATER SEASON, THE PREMIERE OF "MACBETH" BY V. SHAKESPEARE IS PLANNED BY OUR GOOD FRIEND, THE POLISH DIRECTOR MAIA KLECZEWSKA.

IN THE LAST WEEK OF JUNE, THE FIRST SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IN UKRAINE IS SCHEDULED TO BE HELD. THIS WAS PRECEDED BY MANY YEARS OF WORK, AND RECENTLY WE VISITED GDANSK, WHERE THE 27TH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL TOOK PLACE, AND HELD NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE DIRECTORS OF THEATERS THAT ARE PART OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALS AND RECEIVED THEIR SUPPORT, IN PARTICULAR FROM BRITAIN, GERMANY, AND ITALY.

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