Plastic and poetic performance "Let no one cry for me" to the 155th anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka's birth Plastic and poetic performance "Let no one cry for me" (Lesya not from the textbook) is an attempt to return to us the real Lesya Ukrainka. Not a canonical portrait from the school wall, not a bronze figure and not an "eternal sufferer", but a person - ironic, passionate, vulnerable, courageous, in love with life and freedom. Through words, plastic and internal monologue, the voice of Lesya herself appears, often without embellishment and censorship, without myths and familiar roles. She speaks about family and loneliness, about pain and thirst for life, about love, loss, travel, the struggle with the body and the rebellion of the spirit. This is a dialogue through time - with a poetess who does not ask for pity, but demands honesty. The plastic-poetic performance is built as an intimate journey into the author's inner world, where words, movement and music interact on equal terms. Through poetry, prose, letters, memories of a sister, a friend and monologues from dramatic works, we touch the real - not emasculated by censorship - life of Lesya Ukrainka: her loves and losses, friendships and intellectual alliances, fears and challenges that shaped her as a person and an artist. The performance reveals another Lesya - sharp, lively, contradictory. The one who laughs, remembers, loves and speaks directly: without the distance of centuries, without iconostases, without the right to forget. Plastic compositions, created on the basis of the author's experiences, work not as a literal illustration, but as a bodily metaphor: pain and resistance, concentration and explosion, loneliness and strength. Modern plastic becomes a way to say what is not always put into words. Director, choreographer, stage design – Denys Hryhoruk Text – Svitlana Bondar (based on Lesya’s letters, Olga Kryvnyuk-Kosach’s memoirs and modern literary studies) Musical design – Dmytro Belunkin Costumes – Oksana Ternavska Poster – Myroslava Tkach (based on Lesya Ukrainka’s autographed photo and letter to her brother Mykola and sisters Oksana and Isidora) Duration – 60 minutes
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КУ "Одеський академічний український музично-драматичний театр ім. В.С.Василька"