Alaska
Ukraine
What does theatre mean in times of war?
Directing & Text
Evangelos Kosmidis, Andrii Palatny
Report on a theatre play with young people from Mariupol
Language
English with German live interpreting
WHAT DOES THEATRE MEAN IN TIMES OF WAR?
A talk with Evangelos Kosmidis and Andrii Palatnyi
at the Fast Forward Festival workshop in 2021, Greek director Evangelos Kosmidis and Andrii Palatnyi, curator of the Ukrainian Dakh Theater and Gogolfest, created a theatre project with 16 young people, commissioned by the city of Mariupol: ALASKA, a play about the search for happiness in a violent world. Even then the texts by the young people were strongly marked by their experience of violence. Their home towns and their theatres have now been destroyed by the Russian invasion. How can the group continue? How do they stay in contact? How can they find a space for themselves? A place that gives them strength?