Theatre na Zhukah participates in the Zhivi! Festival

The Zhuki will take part in the 9th Zhivi! festival for design and theater lovers, which resumes its work in Kharkiv this year.

Theatre na Zhukah will present “Detalizatsiya” – a piece written by the actor and manager of the theater Dmytro Ternovyi.

“Thanks to the Zhivi! Fest, our new theatrical season starts real early: we will go on stage as soon as August 25 in a quaintest of places – the ArtArea – a popular site right in the center of the city. We were really pleased to hear that the festival resumes its work in Kharkiv and we have successfully qualified for participation”, says D. Ternovyi.
He went on to point out that the Zhivi! takes special place in the history of the Zhuki, because it was the very first fest where the Theatre na Zhukah participated.

“To date, we have already taken part in almost two dozen international festivals and projects, but it all really started in 2009 with the Zhivi! in Crimea where we presented “Go ye?!” and the unique international project “Over-the-Town”. Now we are looking forward to seeing the fest again, to present our new production and to watch what other participants have in store. The theater program promises to be really rich this year”, he added.

“Detalizatsiya” is a new production by the Zhuki. Its release in December last year marked the tenth anniversary of the theater. The production is based on the same name piece that won the drama contest in Eastern Europe “Talk about borders. Living in the age of change” in 2012. The piece is translated into German, Polish and French, and has been staged in several countries, never once in Ukraine though. Written a year before the Maidan, the piece proved to be prophetic in many ways.

This year, the Zhivi! offers a most diverse program of 34 plays for children and adults. Its participants include private owned theaters and famous teams and theaters, such as the Verim! (Dnipro), Dakh, PostPlay, Raydo and Black O! Range Dance project, quartet DEKRU (a pantomime theater from Kyiv), the Garmyder Theater (Lutsk), etc.

The Zhivi! Fest for Design and Theater Lovers was first held in 2006 in Kharkiv and evolved into an annual event in Crimea. Following the Crimea annexation by Russia, the festival took a pause and now resumes its work in Kharkiv. One of its special features is that it engages young designers in the theater arts and all throughout the forum they will have a chance to learn from famous professionals. The designers would make posters for the plays they have seen and the best graphic art pieces will be exhibited at other theater festivals all over Ukraine and abroad. In addition to the laboratory of designers, this year the Zhivi! will present the laboratories of photographers and the theatre critics.