Eco-manifesto "It Starts with Me"
Eco-manifesto "It Starts with Me" five plays by playwrights from the United States, Canada, India, Iraq, and the United Kingdom, combined into an experimental dramatic and plastic performance. The play is the first production in Ukraine to be realized as part of the global Climate Change Theatre Actionhttps://www.climatechangetheatreaction.comfounded in 2015 in the United States to draw attention to environmental issues, especially climate change. "It Starts with Me consists of five separate plays: Caridad Svich "A Letter from the Ocean", Yolanda Bonnell "Drip", Hassan Abdulrazzak "Laila Pines For The Wolf", Abhishek Majumdar "The Arrow", Chantal Bilodeau "It Starts With Me".
The cast of the play includes: Armen Akopian, Konstantin Andrievsky, Olya Boyko, Ilya Herhul, Olexander Kolpakov, Polina Kompaniyets, Olga Melashenko, Dmitry Peretyatko, Olena Rosstalna, Yaroslav Shchotka.
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Choreography by Svitlana Likhnita
Video by Mykhailo Pakhanov
Animation and editing by Vladyslav Boyko
Music by Sveinung Nygaard (Norway)
Translated by Olena Rosstalna
Performance-quest "The Blue Bird"
(project "Theatre in the Museum")
The Blue Bird (based on the play by M. Maeterlinck) is a story about the search for a dream, which combines incredible adventures of the characters, miraculous transformations and touching discoveries. The performance is presented by actors of AmaTea Youth Drama Theater and students of the theater and music classes of the Asol Children's Music Development Studio. Together with the actors, the audience travels through the six halls of the museum.
Hunting for the Killer
(based on the play by W. Mastrosimone)
One day, a student comes to college and decides to take revenge on those who, in his opinion, have been insulting him. How to overcome their ridicule? How to silence them? Where is the way out? This is a story about laughter and indifference, about humiliation and punishment, about the terrible consequences of nightmarish actions.
Josh - Bohdan Musyka
Katie - Olha Boyko
Emily - Yulia Sokotska
Michael - Bohdan Leshchenko
Met - Yevhen Kryachok
Actor 1 (father, grandfather, witness, voice) - Oleksiy Fursenko
Actor 2 (judge, witness, voice) - Olena Rosstalna
Actor 3 (mother, witness) - Olha Melashenko
Actor 4 (psychiatrist, witness, voice) - Rodion Sychev
Actor 5 (policeman, director, witness, voice) - Oleksandr Kolpakov
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Sound, light and poster design by Maksym Obytotskyi
Photo by Mykhailo Pakhanov
June 31 (project "Theatre in the Museum")
The play based on the novel by J.B. Priestley intertwines two worlds - modern and medieval - to unite the hearts of Sam, a romantic artist from the 21st century, with the dreamy Melicent, a princess from the time of King Arthur. In order to be together, the characters have to endure many trials, prove their faithfulness to their feelings, overcome the intrigues of the ladies of the court and the tricks of evil sorcerers... But is it scary to go out to fight a dragon if you can get not only a knightly title, but also the hand of your beloved as a reward?
Melicenta, Princess of Perador - Maria Romanovska
Sam Penty, artist - Illia Herhul
Meliot, king of Perador Oleksandr Kolpakov
Lady Ninet Нінет – Olga Melashenko
Noble Elison, Peggy Polina Kompaniets
Miss Dimmock Olya Boyko
Ann Daton-Swift Eva Ilchenko
Dr. Jarvie, Master Jarvis Dmytro Peretyatko
Captain Plunkettт Armen Akopyan
Queenie the barmaid Olha Khromova
Morgana Olena Rosstalna
Malgrim Bohdan Musyka
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Stage adaptation of the text Olga Melashenko
Catch the Thief (project "Theatre in the Museum")
The comedy, based on the play by Dario Fo, tells the story of a robbery that has unexpected results.
Thief - Oleksandr Kolpakov
The thief's wife - Olha Khromova/Yulia Sokotska
The Man - Bohdan Musyka/Ivan Ihnatovych
The Woman - Olya Boyko
Anna - Olga Melashenko
Antonio - Oleksiy Fursenko/Taras Negrov
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
Photo by Mykhailo Pakhanov
Ingegerd
The play was created by artists from three countries in the project "The Different Stages" implemented by the Youth Drama Theater "AmaTea" (Ukraine, Chernihiv) and the organization "Initiatives of Change" (Sweden). The project is officially included in the European program "2018 - Year of Cultural Heritage in Europe".
The idea for the project which refers to a common episode in the history of Ukraine and the Scandinavian countries, emerged in 2016 at an international cultural exchange program in Ukraine.Curators Nik Dee-Dahlstrom (Sweden) and Olena Rosstalna (Ukraine) successfully presented various stages of the project (trainings, performances, scientific and pedagogical developments) in cultural and educational institutions in Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland. In 2018, the project became one of the winners of the Participatory Budget in Chernihiv. In the summer of 2018, the performance was presented at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, and in the fall in Chernihiv. The musical narrative "Ingigerd" also premiered as well.
Ingegerd - Olga Melashenko
Olaf - Rodion Sychov
Yaroslav - Oleksiy Fursenko
Anna - Sofia Sedko/Kaisa Palm
Jarl Regenwald - Bohdan Musyka
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Script by Moa Sjogren
Music by Sveinung Nygaard (Norway)
Life music by Oleh Boyko (Ukraine) and Sveinung Nygaard (Norway)
Translated by Nik Dee-Dahlstrom and Olena Rosstalna
Photos, video shooting and editing by Mykhailo Pakhanov
Poster design by Maksym Obytotskyi
Knights of the Round Table (J. Anouilh)
The darkness brought on by the evil sorcerer Merlin turns the lush and majestic kingdom of Camelot into a sleepy desert devoid of color, joy, and birdsong. Deceit and lies drive out of the hearts of Arthur's entourage all the pure and sincere things that once shone and flourished there. Darkness is about to overcome even the noblest... Can victory, courage, and true love overcome betrayal and meanness? Will the last sinless heart have the strength to dispel the darkness and show lost souls the way to salvation?
We offer you a modern interpretation of the medieval legend of the search for the Grail, the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, and the tragic love of Queen Guinevere and Lancelot.
King Arthur - Taras Negrov
Queen Guinevere - Yulia Sokotska / Olha Holovach
Merlin - Oleksiy Fursenko
Gawain, Arthur's nephew - Oleksandr Kolpakov
Lancelot - Oleh Honchar
Sagramur, Arthur's son - Vladyslav Boyko
Ihreina, Arthur's daughter - Sofia Ryabukha
Galahad - Olga Melashenko
Director and set design - Olena Rosstalna
Poems by P. Celan and R.M. Rilke
Poems are read by Vladyslav Boyko, Fedir Onyshchenko, Sofia Ryabukha, and Tetiana Zheleznyak.
Video and editing by Mykhailo Pakhanov
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
FLEURS DE VIE(lyrical comedy based on the play by L. Franchini)
How often do we wonder what flowers represent? The rose is considered to be a symbol of love, the daisy is the embodiment of shyness. But there are also Iris, Lily, Pansy, Petunia, Tulip... What do you get when you put them together?
We will get an incredible love story, where the main characters are Empress Elizabeth of Bavaria, the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, the emperor himself, an unnamed Austrian artist and his beautiful wife Marguerite. Balls, receptions, ladies in luxurious dresses, gallant gentlemen and the glitter of European palaces combined with the enchanting landscapes of the Austrian province await you.
Rose - Olga Melashenko
Narcissus - Konstantin Kaminsky
Petunia - Olha Golovach
Tulip - Taras Negrov
Iris - Oleksandr Buyev
Lilia - Olga Sayko / Olesya Melnikova
Pansies - Oleksandr Kolpakov and Olena Rosstalna
Smoking pipe - Olexiy Fursenko
Statue - Maria Feoktistova
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Choreographer - Svitlana Likhtina
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
A Fan for Love (a strange love story based on the play by Yukio Mishima)
The play by the Japanese playwright is full of contradictions, riddles, and symbols. The human soul is surprisingly fragile and tender, and it is so easy to break with a lie. A soul broken by betrayal can never be made pure again. And promises that are fulfilled too late are worth no more than fallen autumn leaves that die under the feet of lonely people who expect nothing more than death. In the end, good and evil are very relative categories...
Hanako, the crazy girl - Olha Golovach
Jitsuko, artist - Olga Melashenko
Yesio, a young man - Oleh Honchar/Rodion Sychev
And also
Konstantin Kaminsky/Bohdan Leshchenko
Maria Feoktistova
Olena Rosstalna/Yulia Sokotska
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Choreographer - Svitlana Likhtina
Art - Maria Feoktistova
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
Performance-impression "A Kind of Life"“
Our lives are full of interesting events, unforgettable meetings, dreams, feelings, and impressions. Some of them we quickly forget, but some remain forever. Perhaps there is more hidden in the old dusty attic than we think? Sometimes it takes just one look at a simple thing to make a beautiful picture of the past, immortal and eternally young, shine in bright colors.
The play is performed by: Oleh Honchar, Oleksiy Fursenko, Taras Negrov, Olha Holovach, Olha Melashenko, Maryna Lapa, Olesya Melnykova, Olena Rosstalna
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
The Canterville Ghost (a material idealistic story based on the novel by O. Wilde)
A respectable family of wealthy Americans, the Otises, buy an old manor house in England, and along with the land and house, they inherit a grumpy and capricious ghost, Sir Simon Canterville, from the previous owners. The wayward spirit can't stand such abuse and begins to play tricks on the new tenants. The confrontation between the representatives of the Old and New Worlds begins!
Will the Otises survive this neighborhood? What secret do the ancient records hide? Will a tired soul be able to find the desired peace after centuries of suffering and loneliness? And what is true love? You will learn about all this by watching the performance.
Sir Simon Canterville - Oleksiy Fursenko
Virginia Otis - Olga Melashenko
Hiram Otis - Oleh Honchar/Taras Negrov
Lucretia Otis - Olha Golovach
Washington Otis - Taras Negrov/Vladyslav Boyko
Nevada Otis - Yulia Sokotska
Miss Amni - Olena Rosstalna
Lord Canterville - Oleksandr Kolpakov
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Literary editor - Olga Melashenko
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
Living Portrait“
Spain of the 17th century is full of beautiful ladies, noble gentlemen, burning passions, crazy love and harsh customs that do not always allow lovers to unite their hearts... Family secrets, duels, intrigues of a cunning servant and forbidden love that overcomes all obstacles, exquisite poetry and incendiary flamenco - all this awaits you in the comedy "Living Portrait" by the Spanish playwright Agustin Moreto.
Don Fernando de Rivera - Taras Negrov
Tacon - Oleksiy Fursenko
Donna Anna - Olha Golovach / Yulia Sokotska
Dona Inessa - Olga Melashenko
Don Pablo de Ruan, Inessa's father - Oleksandr Kolpakov
Don Lope, Inessa's brother - Oleh Honchar
Leonora, the maid - Yulia Sokotska \ Olha Golovach
Don Felix - Oleksandr Buyev
Rosita - Sofia Ryabukha
Maritza - Inna Huzema \ Tetiana Zheleznyak
Luis - Fedir Onyshchenko
Miguel - Vladyslav Boyko
Flamenco performed by Maria Feoktistova
Literary editor - Olga Melashenko
Director and sound engineer - Olena Rosstalna
Trilogy (based on plays by T. Williams)
The play-travel will take the audience to an ordinary American province, where every house has a secret, and behind every "perfect" life there is a desire to escape from the gray reality.
Supervisor - Ivan Ignatovich
Mr. Ray - Oleksandr Buyev
The Lady - Olha Golovach
Dorothy Simpl - Maria Feoktistova
The young man - Oleksiy Fursenko
Policeman - Ivan Ignatovich
Mrs. Dull - Yulia Sokotska
De Poitevin's widow - Olha Golovach
Ariadne de Poitevin - Yulia Sokotska
Mrs. Tatuyler - Maria Feoktistova / Olga Melashenko
Mr. Tatuyler - Oleksiy Fursenko
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
Antigone (J. Anouilh)
The famous French playwright allows us to see one of the greatest tragedies of antiquity in a slightly different light. This is, first of all, a play about loneliness: loneliness in a crowd, loneliness in the silence of an empty room, loneliness on the eve of the most important choice in life, loneliness in the face of death... King Oedipus' daughter Antigone has to choose between her duty of honor and her own desires. Will she remain true to herself? And what does her young soul really want?
Antigone - Olga Melashenko
Creon - Konstantin Kaminsky
Hemon, son of Creon - Taras Negrov
Ismene, sister of Antigone - Olha Golovach
Eurydice, Creon's wife - Victoria Kravchenko
The guards - Ivan Ignatovych and Oleksandr Buyev.
Nurse - Yulia Ruban
Choir - Oleh Honchar, Oleksiy Fursenko, Oleksandr Kolpakov
Ghosts - Ksenia Bushmanova, Olga Sayko
Director and set design - Olena Rosstalna
Costume design - Olena Rossalna
Set design - Oleksiy Fursenko, Roman Frolov
Body art - Olena Dubovenko
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
The Cenotaph or Odysseus and his women
(О. Beiderman)
Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War and the author of the Trojan Horse project, who helped the long-suffering Greeks finally win the victory under the impregnable walls of Ilium, returns home to his beloved wife Penelope after 20 years of wandering. But the family idyll is interfered with by women with whom our hero had relationships during his travels, and who at the same time had the idea to visit their beloved in Ithaca. What was Odysseus' real path? The ironic interpretation of the immortal Homeric poem will not leave anyone indifferent.
Odysseus - Oleh Honchar
Achilles - Andriy Boyko
Polixena - Ksenia Bushmanova / Olha Golovach
Circe - Tatiana Zolotarenko / Ksenia Bushmanova
Scythian princess - Olga Melashenko
Calypso - Victoria Kravchenko
Navsikaya - Alyona Slautina
Penelope - Lyudmila Macedon
Euryclea - Olena Rosstalna
Statues by Oleksiy Fursenko, Olha Panchenko, Olena Dubovenko, and Oleksandr Kolpakov.
Director and set design - Olena Rosstalna
Literary editor - Olga Melashenko
An Importance of Being Earnest (O.Wilde)
Jack Warding, landowner - Oleh Honchar
Algernon Moncrief - Yevhen Potapenko/Taras Negrov
Canon Chasuble, Doctor of Theology - Oleksiy Fursenko
Mary, Warding's maid - Olena Dubovenko
Lane, Moncrief's footman - Olexandr Kolpakov
Lady Bracknell - Olena Rosstalna
Gwendolyn Fairfax, her daughter - Olga Melashenko
Lucille Cardew - Alyona Slautina
Miss Prism, her governess - Victoria Kravchenko
Lady Harburn, a friend of Lady Bracknell - Ksenia Bushmanova
Director and set design - Olena Rosstalna
Literary editor - Olga Melashenko
Костюми – Людмила Македон
Olga Melashenko
Олена Дубовенко
Sound engineer - Maksym Obytotskyi
Widows (based on the play by S. Mrozek)
The tragicomedy Widows by Polish playwright S. Mrozek is a mysterious, funny and sad story about an unusual event that happened one day in a cafe. An intricate plot, an unexpected denouement, and masterful dialogues - this is Widows. The fates of strangers are intertwined in a tango rhythm, leading to a single figure. Whose face is hidden under the mask?
The first husband - Oleh Honchar
The second husband - Kostiantyn Kaminskyi.
The first widow - Tetiana Zolotarenko
The second widow - Olga Melashenko
Waitress - Olena Rosstalna
A mysterious lady in a veil - Victoria Kravchenko
Directed by Olena Rosstalna and Oksana Shkurat
Translated into Ukrainian by Olga Melashenko
Stylist - Lyudmila Makedon
Art - Tatiana Zolotarenko
Choreographer - Hlib Zhytniuk
Sound director - Oksana Shkurat
CAROL (S. Mrozek)
An unusual tandem visits an ophthalmologist: a blind old man with a gun and his eccentric grandson. They desperately need to get a prescription for glasses to carry out a mysterious super-important mission, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
It would seem that the plot is quite simple, but under this ostentatious transparency lies something much more serious. The play raises questions of human decency, honesty, and integrity that are so relevant in our time.
Ophthalmologist - Oleh Honchar
Grandson - Andriy Boyko
Grandfather - Oleksandr Kolpakov
Directed by Olena Rosstalna
Sound director - Lyudmila Makedon
Silence (Janine Worms)
The play Silence, based on the work of French writer and representative of the theater of the absurd Jeanine Worms, consists of nine miniatures united by the subtitle "tragedies in a minute". Aggressive and harsh, sometimes sarcastically ironic, the miniatures depict individual episodes of everyday life, filled with the idea of the absurdity of human existence. The characters of the work are trying to find their place in this world, to earn the right to happiness, but they do it in a rather unusual way, destroying not only their lives, but also the lives of those around them.
The play is performed by: Oleh Honchar, Kostiantyn Kaminskyi, Olha Melashenko, Tetiana Zolotarenko, Tetiana Kapitova, Olha Velychko, Lidiia Popova, Olha Sayko, Viktoriia Kravchenko, Liudmyla Makedon, Valentyna Dzhevago
Directed by Olena Rosstalna and Oksana Shkurat
Sound director - Oksana Shkurat
Eternity and One More Day (M. Pavich)
Love that is stronger than death, human attempts to cross the boundaries of what God has allowed in order to get closer to the Creator, mystical coincidences of circumstances and events, actions that affect the lives of an entire generation, variability of the future... Everyone chooses a story to their own taste, composing elements of this non-linear work of Serbian genius at their own discretion, because the knowledge of eternity and truth is an intimate individual process. We do not impose our vision, but only lift the curtain a little.
The play is performed by: Kostiantyn Kaminskyi, Olha Melashenko, Tetiana Zolotarenko, Tetiana Kapitova, Olha Velychko, Olha Sayko, Viktoriia Kravchenko, Liudmyla Makedon, Valentyna Dzhevaha, Olena Rosstalna, Oksana Shkurat, Solomiia Makar
Directed by Olena Rosstalna and Oksana Shkurat
Sound director - Oksana Shkurat
