False Note / Ukrainian drama performance with English subtitles

The performance is in Ukrainian with English subtitles.

A special event in London's theatre scene!

Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theatre (Kyiv, Ukraine), which despite the war, continues to work to support the audience in Ukraine and unite it beyond the country's borders, invites the London audience to see Didier Caron's exquisite and at the same time shocking drama "False Note". The play was performed with great success in Ukraine and abroad.

It is a unique opportunity for the British public to discover Ukrainian theatre, European and distinctive at the same time.

We would like to remind you that Lesya Ukrainka Theatre came to the British capital in 2015 with four productions based on Ukrainian and European classical drama. All four plays received high praise from London critics and rave reviews from the audience.

26 November - 19:00 Logan Hall London.

Duration: 1 hour. 40 min.

The colossal support the United Kingdom has shown to the people of Ukraine has elevated the relationship between the two countries to a whole new level. Our political and economic partnership has evolved into a sincere friendship based on endless gratitude. Not only politicians, but every UK citizen who offers shelter, help or even a word of solidarity are bringing closer the triumph of justice over cruelty and lawlessness.

We hope that humanitarian values will become the basis for the world order without war.

Culture is the pioneer when it comes to building understanding and dialog. Building new bridges is the goal for the upcoming tour of Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater.

​The theater with almost a century long history represents the classic culture and repertoire of true psychological drama. Its message resonated with viewers in the USA, Canada, Israel, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Poland and, of course, the United Kingdom. Its productions bring forth the most important component in plays of Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, that is, the human nature with all its weaknesses, sorrows, will to life and the most selfless sacrifices.

That's how the characters are in Mykhailo Reznikovich's production of "Fausse Note". Reznikovich is a distinguished artist, a Hero of Ukraine, the founding father of the Ukrainian theater and the author of more than a hundred plays.

​The author of "Fausse Note" Didier Caron puts his characters through extreme trials and tribulations in order to explore where the line between good and evil lies, and what it takes for one to admit that it's been crossed.

​Oleh Zamyatin and Dmytro Savchenko keep the audience on the edge of their seats the whole time and deliver a long-lasting cathartic emotional blow at the end.

​Ukrainian theater combines the principles of psychological drama formulated by Checkhov and Strasberg with idiomatic Ukrainian acting skills. As a teacher with 40-years experience Mykhailo Reznikovich puts it: "The school of psychological drama in Ukraine is very strong. Merely going through the motions is insufficient, we strive to fulfill a spiritual mission, often with impressive results."

Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater was the first theater to open its doors soon after Kyiv and the now bitterly famous towns of Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel and many others were liberated from the occupiers.

We wanted to give people in the war-torn cities hope that normal life without shelling, rocket strikes and death will eventually come back. While we as a nation are yet to see that hope fulfilled, the theater does what it can to help in the meantime. Among other things, we give shelter and jobs to people from other cities whose theaters were destroyed or taken from them by force.

​For the past 8 years the theater helped the Ukrainian Army in the eastern part of our country. We provided financial aid, invited soldiers to see our productions and toured the most dangerous regions.

​The upcoming tour is an attempt to help those who have ended up far away from home and for now cannot go back.

​We stand strong when we stand united. Our allies uniting with us in the name of peace moves us, gives us hope and the strength to win.

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