Location — small stage
Duration — 1 hour 10 minutes without intermission
Age limit — 14+

Everyone knows that the hardest battle is against yourself. How can you withstand your fear,
your anger, your illness, your shame?

Nina arms herself with a dream. She dreams of fresh pastries from Donetsk bakeries, of
walks around the Donbass Arena, of the smell of Kalmius river. She’s pretty sure that all the
best and the worst things in her life have already happened. She flips through the pages of
her calendar as she does every day.

Another day — World Information Architecture Day, World Bartender Day, Ukraine's Unity
Day, St. Vlas Day, Name-days for Dmytro, Fedir, Zakhar, Vsevolod, Havrylo…

«This world needs me, I’ve got to get up, to eat, to wash myself»

Photos: Dmytro Alabuhin

Cast

Nina Hryhorivna — Tetiana Frolova
Maksym — Andriy Roschis / Nazar Boniashchuk
Chuhayster — Artur Temchenko / Yuriy Shorobura

Director — Dmytro Zakhozhenko
Playwright — Lena Kudayeva
Set Designer — Oleksiy Khoroshko

Production manager — Yurii Zakharko
Sound engineers — Volodymyr Pomirko, Liubomyr Ishchuk
Composers — Volodymyr Pomirko, Oksana Cymbalist
Lighting designer — Taisia Malakhova, Artur Temchenko
Costumes idea — Yulia Rybka-Koval, Diana Yanchuk
Director Asistant — Svitlana Ilyuk
Construction manager — Serhii Stoliaruk
Props, decorator — Marta Bozhyk
Dressmaker — Iryna Musikhina
Costumiers — Halyna Hladun, Diana Yanchuk
Stage technicians — Oleh Zherebetskyi, Serhii Lytvynenko, Volodymyr Prodyus
PR — Viktoriia Dzydziuk, Rostyslav Kuzyk
Design — Mariia Mykytenko

Premiere — June 16, 2023

Place — big stage
Duration — 1 hour 20 minutes
Age limit — 18+

Director — Dmytro Zakhozhenko
Set Designer — Oleksiy Khoroshko
Costume Designer — Mariya Antonyak
Poems by Kateryna Kalytko, Halyna Kruk, Maryan Pyrozhok
Production Manager — Yuriy Zakharko
Lighting Designers — Tayisiya Datsyk, Yevheniy Petrov, Artur Temchenko
Sound Engineer — Volodymyr Pomirko
Media Equipment Support — Vladyslav Bilonenko
Assistant Director — Svitlana Iliuk 
Dressmaker — Tetiana Kalinichenko
Construction Manager, artist — Serhiy Stolyaruk

Cast: Tayisiya Datsyk, Zoryana Dybovska, Olha Zakhozhenko/Anna Vasylchenko, Sofiya Leshyshak, Anastasiya Perets, Oksana Tsymbalist

It’s our first stage work since the beginning of large-scale invasion. What can we say about this work? Lets say its genre is uncertain — as well as our living today. There are many voices in it overwhelmed with rage, pain and hope. There is a lot of music in it full of struggle and freedom. We say the words written by Ukrainian poets and poetesses this spring. We share our fears and dreams. We laugh at a joke though it’s not quite a joke, but it’s still funny. To be honest we made this work for ourselves to recover by breathing at a steady pace. We hope you will do the same.

Premiere — June, 22, 2022 

Place — Small stage

Age limit — 18+ 

The «sacred» norm, to which we try our best to conform, increasingly resembles a Procrustean bed, which does not contain the most valuable. Instead, it is full of fears, the biggest of which is the fear of being yourself. Why do we want so badly to squeeze into the hole of the norm, ruthlessly trimming parts that don’t fit? John Paul II once said: the Decalogue did not include one important thesis — do not be afraid! We all are Different. Majority does not exist. The stars light up because thermonuclear fusion is taking place. And it doesn’t matter what people think about it. And when you look at the starry sky, where does your moral compass point? 

Directed by Dmytro Zakhozhenko 

Dramaturg — Oksana Danchuk 

Set designer — Maciej Bogdanovich 

Composers — Vladimir Pomirko, Oksana Tsymbalist 

The author of the lyrics — Volodymyr Beglov 

Costume designers — Ruslan Baginsky and Oksana Pigel 

Actors: Nazar Bonyashchuk, Zoryana Dybovska, Rostislav Kolachnyk, Roman Kryvdyk, Mykhailo Ponzel, Vasyl Sidorko, Oksana Tsymbalist 

Photos: Tetiana Dzhapharova

The play was created in partnership with the Education Center of Human Rights in Lviv grounded on a sociological study of the quality of life of LGBT people in Lviv with the support of the UKF, the Embassy of the Netherlands, the National Democratic Institute and the Government of Sweden 

Premiere — September 8, 2021

Place — big stage

Duration — 2 hours 20 minutes with intermission

Age limit — 18+

Director, Set Designer — Dmytro Kostyumynskyi

Playwright — Maksym Maksymchuk

Сhoreographer — Viktor Ruban

Composer — Henadiy Boychenko

Light and video — BLCk BOX

Producer — Veronika Sklyarova

Text authors — Maksym Maksymchuk, Vasyl Sydorko

Production manager — Maria Antonyak

Lighting designers — Viktoriya Romanchuk, Artur Temchenko

Sound engineers — Ostap Shuper, Volodymyr Pomirko

Assistant Director — Svitlana Iliuk

Media equipment support — Vladyslav Bilonenko

Costumiers — Halyna Hladun, Diana Yanchuk

Dressmaker — Tetyana Kalinichenko

Props — Marta Bozhyk

Decorators — Iryna Polyanska, Viktoriya Romanchuk

Construction Manager, artist, carpenting, smithing — Serhiy Stolyaruk

Stage Technicians — Vladyslav Bilonenko, Oleh Zherebetskyi, Rostyslav Kolachnyk, Serhiy Lytvynenko

Chief Administrator — Iryna Chanyzh

PR — Viktoriya Solovyuk, Olha Smulska 

Designer — Olena Konoval

Cast: Mykola Bereza, Vitaliy Hordiyenko, Zoryana Dybovska, Anna Yepatko, Andriy Kravchuk, Roman Kryvdyk, Kateryna Kudlach, Sofiya Leshyshak, Serhiy Lytvynenko, Anastasiya Lisovska, Isabel Merkulova, Vasyl Sydorko, Oksana Tsymbalist

How to become a hero?

To do something outstanding? To create a cancer vaccine? To win an Olympic medal? To neutralize an enemy? To rescue a kitten? To give up your seat on the tram to those in need? To kill another hero?

What type of hero to become?

Main character or secondary one? Real hero or fictional? Personal hero or national symbol? To the very death or posthumously? For an hour? For a day? Until the news feed is updated?How does it feel like to be a hero?

Is it honorable? Is it burdensome? Is it impossible? Is it possible to become, but it is impossible to be?

To become a hero or to remain a human? The dichotomy? The ambivalence?

Where is the place for the hero? It is always vacant.

Photos: Tetiana Dzhapharova

The hero has no age. The hero has no sex. The hero has many names and wears many faces.

The performance «Heroes of Chaos» is a part of the Ukrainian project «Ukrainian Odyssey», which is based on Homer’s poem «Odyssey». Five performances within the framework of this project will be interpreted and integrated into the modern realities of our country. They will be created and performed in Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Kyiv.

The performance was made with the financial support within the program «Focus on Culture» of Lviv City Council.

WARNING! The bright light flashes and sound effects are being used during the performance. This can negatively affect people with medical conditions. Take care of yourself and people around you.

Premiere — December 26, 2020

By Caryl Churchill 

Place — big stage

Age limit — 18+

The Strange-Little Woman: sits in a hut and tells her friend that she wants to kill her own mother (spoiler – she won’t kill her).

The Pragmatic-Adult Woman: has her first cup of coffee at the office and tells her colleague about plans for weeknight date (spoiler — the date went bad).

The Anxious-Little Woman: worries that everyone thinks her mother is a whore (spoiler — we’ll never know if its true).

The Too-Modest-Adult-Woman: left her job to make everyone realize how much she had done and make them sorry for not appreciating her (spoiler — they won’t ever realize it).

The Woman-Who-Has-Achieved-A-Lot: returns to a place where it all began. She understands why everything has happened this way, she will forgive everyone, she will love everyone (spoiler — everyone but herself).

It will rain. One will hear its soothing sound. The air will be clearer and the landscape will be fresher. The random salt pillar on the Dead Sea shore will speak up loud, and we’ll finally find out what women’s happiness is about.

Photos: Tetiana Dzhapharova

Translator — Olesya Kamyshnykova

Director — Dmytro Zakhozhenko

Scenography — Oleksiy Khoroshko

Composers — Volodymyr Pomirko, Oksana Tsymbalist

Light Designers — Viktoria Romanchuk, Artur Temchenko

Costumes Designer — Maria Antoniak

Cast:

Marlene — Natalia Mazur

Isabella Bird, Mrs Kidd — Zoryana Dybovska

Lady Nijo — Isabel Merkulova

Dull Gret, Loise — Tetyana Frolova

Pope Joan — Oksana Tsymbalist

Patient Griselda, Jeanine — Anastasia Perets

Waitress, Joyce — Taisia Malakhova

Angie — Anastasia Lisovska

Kit, Shona — Sofia Leshyshak

Win — Andriy Kravchuk

Nell — Mykhailo Ponzel

The translation of the play «Top Girls» was created in the partnership with the British Council in Ukraine.

Premiere — May 8, 2021

By Hainer Muller and Sophocles

Place — Small Stage

Age limit — 18+

How are humans different from apes? Humans go to barber shops, spas, sometimes they visit churches and polling stations. Humans got their FB accounts as well as desire to destroy each other on purpose simply for sport. And most importantly, we can make up stories, tales, myths. For example: a poisonous snake has bitten the war hero’s leg. The rotten wound doesn’t heal and stinks so badly that no one can be around. So the war hero is left on isolated island, where he suffers from physical pain, loneliness and the victim complex. But suddenly everyone realizes: the war can’t be over without him. The hero has to decide whether he’ll stay isolated, or return and

help those who have left him on the island. It’s a tough decision.

«It’s pathetic» — the ancient Greeks would say.

«Personal VS Political» — they would write in the XX century.

«Myths aren’t simple» — your teacher of foreign literature used to say.

«So is the life» — Heiner Müller would add.

«There is no way Heiner Müller can ever be that banal» — the theater experts will say.

«What reasonable could one hope to hear from this commie?» — the nationalists will say.

«What on earth does he even know about the war?» — the veterans will say.

«Well, you should have visited theater more often» — Hades will say while opening the door for you.

Photos: Serhii Danievich

Translator Heiner Muller`s play — Nina Zakhozhenko

Translator Sophocles`s play — Andriy Sodomora

Director — Dmytro Zakhozhenko

Scenography — Oleksiy Khoroshko

Costumes Designers — Maria Antoniak, Oleksiy Khoroshko

Musical Design — Oksana Tsymbalist

Light Designers — Viktoria Romanchuk, Artur Temchenko

Sound engіneers — Volodymyr Pomirko, Ostap Shuper

Premiere — March 1, 2020

Based on texts by Plato

Place: small stage
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes without intermission
Age limit: 18+

Director — Piotr Armianovski
Playwrights — Piotr Armianovski and Anastasiia Kosodii
Scenography and costume design — Кateryna Markush and Mariia Khomiakova
Choreography and physicality precision — Viktor Ruban
Choirmaster — Oksana Tsymbalist
Sound engineers — Volodymyr Pomirko, Liubomyr Ishchuk
Lighting designer — Artur Temchenko
Media equipment support — Pavlo Kovalskyi
Production manager — Yurii Zakharko
Assistant Director — Svitlana Iliuk
Props — Marta Bozhyk
Decorators — Marta Bozhyk, Solomiia Ortynska
Construction manager, artist — Serhii Stoliaruk
Dressmaker — Iryna Musikhina
Costumiers — Halyna Hladun, Diana Yanchuk
Stage technicians — Oleh Zherebetskyi, Serhii Lytvynenko, Volodymyr Prodyus
PR — Viktoriia Dzydziuk, Rostyslav Kuzyk
Design — Olena Konoval, Mariia Mykytenko
Consultant in Greek — Polina Kharasakhal

Cast:

Alcibiades — Rostyslav Kolachnyk/Andrii Roschis
The one who looks like Socrates — Vasyl Kolisnyk
The one who speaks like Socrates — Isabel Merkulova
Female Flutist — Anastasiia Perets/Tetiana Shelelio

«The ordinary people like me don’t make a difference». What is the danger behind this common opinion? Why, in fact, this opinion is widespread among our citizens? We believe it’s because this is the easiest way. By choosing the comfortable position called “out of politics” we console ourselves with hopes for the quick victory and the post-war prosperity of the country. What is hope — a lifeline or something that may lead us astray?

This performance is a session of disillusionment, inspired by the ancient Greeks. Armed with a sense of humor and small-caliber provocations, we will reflect on justice, responsibility, virtue and ways of harmonious coexistence of such different us in Ukraine.

This project runs with financial support from the Stabilisation Fund for Culture and Education 2022 of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institute.

Premiere — January 22, 2023