Між Світом і Душею
12 June 2026, Fri.
19:00 - 20:30
Collider
Kyiv, вул. Кирилівська, 60
This is not a performance about the death of Vasyl Stus.
It is a performance about how a person endures when the system has done everything possible to make them break. One actor. A concrete space. Two wooden planks. Sixty minutes without an intermission.
The actor does not portray the poet. He is a person putting himself on trial. In real time. In front of you.
Bentegy Independent Theatre employs the Suzuki Method of Japanese theatre: physical exhaustion is not a technique but the very substance of the performance. No scenery. No illusions. Only a body pushed to its limits - and the words of Stus that keep it standing.
"I descend as though I rise."
The text is composed of Stus's letters to his wife, his poetry, and an internal monologue. In one scene, the actor steps into the audience.
This is not a lecture. It is not a concert. It is not a memorial.
It is an experience you take home with a question the performance does not answer.
Director: Pavlo Koval
Performer: Anton Starostin
Venue: Collider (60 Kyrylivska Street, Kyiv)
Warning: This performance contains strobe lighting, sudden loud sounds, and physically intense scenes. 16+
In the event of an air raid alert, the performance will continue. Audience members who wish to do so may proceed to the nearest shelter (Tarasa Shevchenka Metro Station)
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