Performed at AUGB London, Holland Park, 2015.
This verbatim performance was based on powerful eyewitness accounts collected by Molodyi Teatr director Olesya Khromeychuk during her trip to Ukraine to research women’s roles in the Maidan protests and the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine.Performed at a variety of venues, 2015-2020.
Each year Molodyi Teatr presents its own tongue-in-cheek take on the traditional Ukrainian Christmas play – not without the odd reference to contemporary politics!2014
2014
Photo: Sasha Taran, 2015
Photo: Sasha Taran, 2015
2016
2016
Photo: Anna Morgan, 2019
Photo: Marichka Fin, 2019
Performed at the Ukrainian Institute London, Holland Park, 2013.
This verbatim play, performed in English, Russian and Ukrainian, drew on testimonies of survivors of the 1932-33 artificial famines in the USSR, which killed millions of people in Ukraine and in other parts of the Soviet Union.Performed at AUGB London, Holland Park, 2013.
Molodyi Teatr’s innovative adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s classic poem The Dream, a biting satire of imperialism, oppression and a hymn to hope and freedom.Performed at AUGB London, Holland Park, 2013.
We presented our own musical sketch about the legendary loveable rogues of the streets of L’viv/Lwów/Lemberg, who are well known in Polish and Ukrainian urban folklore. Featuring original 1930s songs.Performed at AUGB London, Holland Park, 2012.
Molodyi Teatr presented a dramatic interpretation of a selection of songs and poems by Ukrainian, Russian and Jewish writers who in their own ways resisted or protested against oppression and violence. Authors represented included Vasyl Stus, Lina Kostenko, Evgeny Evtushenko and Hayim Nahman Bialik.Performed at AUGB London, Holland Park, 2012.
A short, experimental ‘wordless’ performance about language, identity and belonging.Ukrainian Institute, London, February 2012
Molodyi Teatr put on an evening of food, song and poetry dedicated to the great Robert Burns, with readings and singing in Scots, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, French and possibly a few other languages. Haggis and whiskey rounded off the evening. See here for more information.Performed at AUGB London and the Ukrainian Institute, December 2011.
Our take on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, and based loosely on the script of the classic 1972 Borys Ivchenko film. A group of hapless Cossacks risks life and limb, encounters the devil, and drinks a lot of vodka on a fantastical, absurd journey through Ukraine to deliver a letter to the Empress.AUGB London, August 2011
A show made up of some of the best works by contemporary Ukrainian poets, including Serhii Zhadan, Iurii Andrukhovych, Viktor Neborak and Oleksandr Irvanets’, including our interpretations of the great songs of the Ukrainian band Braty Hadiukiny.Various venues, 2010-2011.
Our take on Gogol’s classic Christmas story, featuring all kinds of Cossacks, witches and devils.