A drama, or even a melodrama, is divided into 3 acts: each of them has its main character. They are brothers and surgeons. The youngest, Alexander Nikolayevich, works at the oncology department of the ENT Institute. The middle brother, Boris Nikolayevich, operates in the surgical department of one o...
For the last 10 years of his life, Nietzsche was out of his mind. The playwright was so impressed by this fact that she wrote a play. Thomas Kroppar, a professional actor, plays Friedrich Nietzsche in a theater. Nitsky, a tram driver, considers himself a descendant of the great philosopher and reads...
By February 24, 2022, the war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years. This text is dedicated to its very beginning – the Maidan 2014 in Kyiv and to the subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine. The country was divided into two zones – war and peace. The Women and the Sniper is about...
A resident of one of the settlements in Brovary district, Alevtina, tells the former chairman, Fedorovich, about her sorrow. While she was on duty at a hospital in Kyiv, Russian forces entered her village, took her husband and son, and now the woman doesn’t even know where they are and what ha...
Tetiana Kytsenko, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, winner of the Free Theatre Grand Prix (London–Minsk, 2016), reflects on the nature of theater and modern Ukrainian drama. Her “From Beginning to End the Author Has to Change” is a largely autobiographical essay. After the first performance o...