collaboration with  Les Kurbas Theater, Lviv/Ukraine 2011

Lesia Ukrainka's classic text is a dramatic love story between the Forest Nymph Mavka and a young man, Lukash. In Andriy Prykhodko’s vivid directorial interpretation of Mavka’s story, the three acts of her chronicles encapsulate different periods of Ukrainian history. Its beginning coincides with the start of the twentieth century when Ukraine was at its last peak of cultural and national identity; when everyday life was filled with the vibrancy of its historical treasures, its clothing, its songs, its rituals, its traditions. The second and third “carols” shift to the starker period Soviet times and then onto the present, which harbors the bitter legacy of the past.

Director –Andrii Prykhodko
Musical Director –Mariana Sadovska
Set and Costume Design – Bohdan Polishchuk
Lighting Design—Petro Humeniuk
Choreographer – Ninel Zberia

Cast:
Mavka (A Forest Nymph)– Oksana Kozakevych
Lukash –Yaroslav Fedorchuk, Mykola Bereza, Andrii Kozak
Uncle Leo – Oleh Stefan
Lisovyk (A Woodland Spirit) –Oleh Tsiona
Rusalka (A Water-dwelling Succubus) - Tamara Gorgisheli, Natalia Parkhomenko
Lukash’s Mother –Tetiana Kaspruk
Perelesnyk (The Spirit of Seduction) - Andriy Vodychev, Oleh Oneschak
Poterchata (The Spirits of Deceased Children) –Tamara Gorgisheli, Natalia Parkhomenko, Maria Oneschak, Veronika Pozniak

The project is supported by “The Foundation for Development of Ukraine”

More: https://kurbas.lviv.ua/en/show/The-song-of-the-forest

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