A Theater on Podil Production
Presented by The Public Theater

SYNOPSIS:

In 1920, thirty-two-year-old Les Kurbas (the founder of the modern Ukrainian theatre), takes a group of young actors out of war-torn Kyiv into the countryside where they will perform plays, bartering tickets for food. One such play is Macbeth, the first Shakespeare production ever in Ukrainian.

While Kurbas and most of the company attend a show by a local theater company performed in their honor, six young women, four actresses, a pianist and a dancer stay behind with their children. Over a meal which they cook from the proceeds of that evening’s show, the young women talk, complain, joke, make fun of themselves, laugh, rehearse dances from the show, all while in pain, heartbroken, lost, scared, and with a need to be together.

Written and Directed by Richard Nelson
Translated by Yulia Sosnovska

Cast includes Yulia Brusentseva, Kateryna Chikina, Mariia Demenko, Natalka Kobizka, Olena Korzeniuk, Maria Kos

This production will be performed in Ukrainian with English supertitles.