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The performance "Marriage" in Lutsk will take place on October 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM .

Why is it worth visiting the play Marriage in Lutsk?

• A timely story about a man who returns from war and tries to find himself in a world that will never be the same again.
• An unusual combination of absurdity, tragicomic, grotesque, and "theater within a theater," where the line between dream, reality, and delusion gradually disappears.
• The opportunity to ask important questions, together with the main character, about home, the past, loved ones, and how experiences change our perception of ourselves and reality.

Marriage

"Marriage" is a performance by the "Garmider" theater based on the play of the same name by Polish playwright Witold Gombrowicz, one of the most prominent authors of 20th-century European literature.

Written in the post-war year of 1946, the play is particularly relevant today. The play centers on a man who returns from war and tries to rediscover the world he knew before. But returning home does not mean returning to his old life: reality has changed, loved ones have become different, and the hero himself can no longer be the person he was before the war.

• Genre: personality drama
• Author of the play: Witold Gombrowicz
• Ukrainian translation: Larisa Andrievska
• Director: Ruslana Porytska
• Costume designer: Yulia Fedoseeva
• Language: Ukrainian
• Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes

What is this story about?

Soldier Henryk returns from the war and finds himself in a strange, almost dreamlike space. He does not immediately recognize his own home and parents, who have turned into innkeepers. Next to him are his friend Vladzo, his beloved Manya, and the bizarre figures of the Drunkard, the Bishop, the Chamberlain, and the Traitor.

Henrik seeks to restore the lost order: to restore his relationship with Manea, to reclaim the past, to feel the ground under his feet again. However, each of his attempts increasingly draws the hero into a world where the usual rules no longer apply, and the line between dream, delusion, and reality gradually disappears.

"Marriage" talks about a person's experience after the war:

About the impossibility of simply returning to the life that was "before"; about a changed consciousness, the loss of familiar landmarks and the search for oneself in a world that has become unrecognizable. The performance is built on the collision of realities, the game with form and the constant balancing between the serious and the grotesque. The stage language combines absurdity, tragicomic, convention and the principle of "theater within the theater."

The director's decision is based on the "theater of pure form": external theatricality is not hidden here, but on the contrary - it becomes part of the statement. The heroes seem to simultaneously live their own story and create it right in front of the viewer. This creates a labyrinth of images, roles, substitution of meanings and provocations, in which the viewer, together with Henryk, tries to understand: what is reality, what is a dream, and what is born in the mind of a person who has returned from the war.

"Marriage" enters into a dialogue with the contemporary Ukrainian experience of war without literally transferring the play to specific circumstances. The focus remains on the person and the changes that occur to him under the influence of what he has experienced.

What does it mean to return home after the war?

Does home exist as we remember it?

Is it possible to get back the old relationship?

How does the experience change our perception of loved ones, ourselves, and reality?

The play speaks about the fragility of the familiar world, about the collision of the past and the present, and about man's attempt to redefine his place in a reality that will never be the same again.

Where to buy tickets for the play "SHLYUB" in Lutsk?

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