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Photo from the play Caligula by Ivan Uryvskyi

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Theater play Caligula about tyranny to represent Ukraine at France’s Avignon performing arts festival

Ukrainian production of Caligula, based on French writer Albert Camus' interpretation of the Roman emperor, delves into questions of tyranny, freedom, dignity, and the consequences of unlimited power, resonating with Ukraine's ongoing fight for independence, according to Ukrainian director Ivan Uryvskyi.

byVira Kravchuk

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Theaters, museums, libraries among 1,987 cultural sites damaged by Russian aggression in Ukraine

Russian military aggression has damaged or destroyed 1,987 cultural sites in Ukraine, including 958 community centers, 708 libraries, and 114 museums, profoundly affecting the country's cultural heritage.

Russia destroying evidence by flattening occupied Mariupol torture site

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Russia destroying evidence by flattening occupied Mariupol torture site

Russian occupiers dismantle a section of the building in the Central Police Department of Mariupol, used as a torture site, as reported by Ukrainian authorities.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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Culture of Ukraine

The show must go on: Odesa Opera braves missile strikes to stage “Thumbelina”

Unlike the typical children's story, Odesa's reimagined production features camouflage-wearing toads and beetles that embody inter-species hatred.

byZarina Zabrisky

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International

Italy arrests Ukrainian theater director on demand of Russia in “fabricated” case

On 17 December 2021, Naples law enforcement officers arrested 39-year-old Yevhen Lavrenchuk, a Ukrainian theater director and ,…

byYuliia Rudenko

Dance of Tartars (1856), painting by Carlo Bossoli, a part of his Crimean travel collection published as an album of lithographs titled "The Beautiful Scenery And Chief Places Of Interest Throughout The Crimea"

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Russian occupiers continue to destroy history and culture of Crimean Tatars

The sacking of Bilyal Bilyalov as head of the Crimean Tatar Academic Musical-Dramatic Theater this week on trumped…

byPaul A. Goble

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Turning teenagers into playwrights: a Ukrainain East-West reconciliation success story

“I see how the children are changing. And it will definitely change the country in the future,” Natalka…

byOlena Makarenko

Modernized past: how today’s Ukrainian culture combines tradition and modernity

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Modernized past: how today’s Ukrainian culture combines tradition and modernity

In the 20th century, the Soviet regime was busy trying to erase this “national” element. The search of national…

byUkraineWorld Group

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Theatre officials try to suppress opening of play in Mariupol

Pavlo Arie, author of Glory to the Heroes has reported on his FB page that the administration of…

byUkrainian media sources

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How a Ukrainian play made it to the French stage. Story of Maїdan Inferno

“Maїdan Inferno” is the first Ukrainian play translated to French. Parts of it were staged as a public…

byAnastasiia Chornohorska