Хованка

HIDING PLACE

Theater "Garmider" (Lutsk)

Head: Ruslana Porytska

Genre: children's drama, 16+

Playwright: Lyatzer Garcia

Ukrainian translation: Oleksandra Laktionova

Director: Yevhen Karnaukh

Plastic surgery director: Gleb Zelgin

"Hide and Seek" is a stage adaptation of the play "Ashes" by Spanish playwright Ljatzer.

Garcia, first presented on the Ukrainian stage. The production was created in

cooperation between the Lutsk theater "Garmyder" and the literary platform "Frontera".

The events unfold over a day and a half after the father's death. At the center of the story is

three people who find themselves close to loss but don't know how to talk about it.

Silence, confusion, memories, and inability to understand one's own feelings

gradually uncover a complex history of family relationships. What is this story about?

"Hide and Seek" explores mechanisms of pain avoidance, memory selectivity, and

relationship between parents and children. The father figure is deliberately devoid of specificity: he

exists primarily through the memory of others - through what they remember,

silenced, repressed or tried to understand.

This is a story about loss, but at the same time, about the closeness that we often fail to experience.

to reach on time. About things that remain unsaid, and about trying

to meet with them when direct dialogue is no longer possible.

Chamber space, minimalist scenography and plastic language of the performance

create a feeling of closure and inner tension. In the production, it is important

there is not only text, but also pause, silence, distance between characters, bodily

the presence and interaction of actors in space.

The minimalism of stage means allows you to focus on the person and their

internal experience.

"Hide and Seek" offers a conversation about personal and collective memory, about experience

losses and ways of living with pain. The personal history of a family goes beyond

private and resonates with the contemporary experience of society, in which the theme of loss

has become a part of many people's lives.

The performance does not offer ready-made answers. It creates a space for an encounter with

something that often remains unspoken — in the family and within ourselves.