„Richard after Richard” – Lidia Danylczuk, Ukoshyku Theatre, UKRAINE

„Richard after Richard” based on Shakespeare’s chronicle, monodrama by Lidia Danylczuk, dir. Iryna Wołycka, Lviv’s Ukoshyku Theatre

October 18th (Saturday), 5:30 PM / Carmina Stage in Large Outbuilding

There are things one wishes to whisper about, and there are things that must be cried out. At a certain point, I saw no play more contemporary than Shakespeare’s Richard III. Only, the story of our Richard begins where Shakespeare’s Richard ends. The audience is free to decide for themselves where and when the action takes place: whether on the last night before his death, or perhaps already somewhere in that realm where eternal punishment for crimes is meted out, and where one is condemned forever to an absurd slaughter that could drive one mad even in the afterlife. It is a kind of warning to murderers, politicians, and overly fervent materialists. While keeping to the main ideas and aphorisms of Richard III, we worked not with the plot, but with the meta-plot of Shakespeare’s play. That is why it does not matter who embodies the protagonist—whether a man or a woman. The problem of Richard, or Hamlet, concerns everyone, regardless of gender. (Iryna Volytska)

Lidia Danylczuk is an actress of the Theatre in a Basket, an Honored Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Ivan Kotliarevsky Theatre Award and the Borys Romanytskyi Regional Prize of Lviv. She studied at the Karpenko-Karyi Theatre Institute. She has worked at the Odessa Music and Drama Theatre and the Les Kurbas Theatre in Lviv.Iryna Volytska-Zubko is a director of the Theatre in a Basket, an Honored Artist of Ukraine, theatre critic, PhD, laureate of the Les Kurbas Theatre Award and the Borys Romanytskyi Regional Prize of Lviv. She graduated from the Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in St. Petersburg.

fot. Marcin Butryn