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Christmas Night in Ivano-Frankivsk! We are waiting for you 2022-01-09 at 15:00 and 19:00 at the location of Ivano-Frankivsk Theater. I. Franko, Ivano-Frankivsk.
You can buy tickets for Christmas Night at Concert.ua online.
Christmas night - and we are grown children again, with faith in wonder and harmony. Oksana will be waiting for shoes from the queen, and Vakula will catch the devil by the tail - just to attract the black-browed beauty, the devil will steal the moon, and Chub and company will sit in bags with the seductive Solokha…
Mykola Gogol was an obscure person even for his contemporaries. His life, work and death are imbued with mysticism, ancient ethos and love for the Ukrainian spirit. It seems that he knew more than a person is allowed and could share this knowledge only indirectly - through creativity. And we, as we know how, decipher the wills of the genius in his texts, which he kindly did not burn.
Therefore, "Christmas Night" belongs to the "light" genre only conditionally. Under the shell of the extravaganza of Christmas carols, maiden laughter and the brilliance of winter stars, we find the author's longing for the glorious past of the people. When a Cossack does not wait for a year of audience with the queen, as a great favor, and then is satisfied with a pair of boots, and Oksana does not "twist" the Cossack Vakula. When the Zaporozhye "Seagull" cuts the waves of the Dnieper, as a formidable and beautiful manifestation of freedom…
The scene with the "pilgrimage" to Solokha's house on Christmas Eve of the honorable gentlemen of the village is a space for reflection on the power of female seduction. Witchcraft in the nature of women, but not everyone chooses to live by the laws of such nature. Solokha's bright and doomed world as an alternative to Puritan morality? Is it a story in a funny way about the temptations of sin and unwillingness to resist it?
"Christmas Night" is a fairy tale that warms the soul of our mysterious classic. And also - a minute to think about who we are.
What is a winter night without Vakula, Oksana, Solokha and Kaposny the Devil?
Directed by Fedir Stryhun, People's Artist of Ukraine, winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine
Director - Taisiya Litvinenko People's Artist of Ukraine
Artists - Bohdan Pokrovetsky Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, Mykhailo Mykhaschuk
Costumes - Orest Gelitovich
Music - Victor Mishin
Conductor - Bohdan Mochurad People's Artist of Ukraine
Choirmaster - Oksana Yavdoshin
Dances - Elena Balayan Choreographer
Assistant directors - Vyacheslav Zhukov , Konstantin Shelest , Tatiana Kohut
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