October 2013 Ukraine
6th Mariafest Monodrama Festival,
Ivan Franko Theatre, Kyiv
7th National University of Linguistics, Kyiv
9th Reshetylivka, Poltava
12th Art School, Kryvyi Rig,
promoted by Shelter+ Kryvyi Rig
14th Ivan Franko University, Lviv
15th Les Kurbas Theatre, Lviv
18th Lyceum, Pidhaitsi
Scotland October
24th Beacon Arts Centre Greenock
25/26th Tron Theatre Glasgow
30th Eden Court Inverness
31st Dundee Rep
November
1st&2nd Summerhall Edinburgh
5th Eden Court Inverness
6th Mariafest Monodrama Festival,
Ivan Franko Theatre, Kyiv
7th National University of Linguistics, Kyiv
9th Reshetylivka, Poltava
12th Art School, Kryvyi Rig,
promoted by Shelter+ Kryvyi Rig
14th Ivan Franko University, Lviv
15th Les Kurbas Theatre, Lviv
18th Lyceum, Pidhaitsi
Scotland October
24th Beacon Arts Centre Greenock
25/26th Tron Theatre Glasgow
30th Eden Court Inverness
31st Dundee Rep
November
1st&2nd Summerhall Edinburgh
5th Eden Court Inverness
The company returned from a hugely successful tour of Ukraine in October, playing to packed houses in theatres and educational venues across the country, covering around 7000km in the van ! In spite of some very poor roads and the regular attention of the Ukrainian traffic police, we had a wonderful time, receiving tremendous hospitality and appreciation from hundreds of people. Over 1500 people attended our seven performances, with a majority being under 30 years of age. The tour opened at the prestigious Ivan Franko Theatre in Kyiv at the Mariafest Monodrama Festival, headed by the distinguished and irrepressible actress, Larysa Kadyrova. We were particularly honoured to be included in this festival, funded by the Ukrainian Culture Ministry, as it is primarily a festival of plays performed by women. Matthew also paid a visit to the office of the literary journal Vsesvit, publishers of the play's Ukrainian translation.
Over 250 attended our next performance at the National University of Linguistics in Kyiv, organised by Hanna Dyka and Anna Voskres and we travelled further east to Poltava Oblast, where 400 attended the show at the House of Culture in the small town of Reshetylivka, the first ever performance in the town by a foreign theatre company. This was organised by teacher Taya Kripliva, who has established a museum dedicated to Robert Burns in her school in the village of Ploske. We visited her school to talk to the pupils there. We drove to our most easterly point, the city of Dnipropetrovsk, before turning south west to Kryvyi Rih, Europe's longest city (126km!), where it took some time for us to find out hotel ! Our performance there was organised by the independent youth arts charity, Shelter+, and was again a full house, with dozens of people eager to talk to us after the show. A marathon 14-hour drive west took us to the beautiful city of Lviv for sell-out performances at the Ivan Franko University and the Kurbas Theatre. Our final performance in Ukraine was in the small town of Pidhaitsi, close to the origin of the story, a very special performance. Matthew and film director Brian Ross stayed on in Pidhaitsi as the van drove out of Ukraine towards home, filming there and in the village of Hnilowody, the Tailor's birthplace, for a documentary film on the play, our touring in Eastern Europe and the Polish and Ukrainian post-war settlement in Scotland. This included another school visit. The film is produced by Hopscotch Films of Glasgow. We thanks Hopscotch and Creative Scotland for supporting this remarkable tour.
Over 250 attended our next performance at the National University of Linguistics in Kyiv, organised by Hanna Dyka and Anna Voskres and we travelled further east to Poltava Oblast, where 400 attended the show at the House of Culture in the small town of Reshetylivka, the first ever performance in the town by a foreign theatre company. This was organised by teacher Taya Kripliva, who has established a museum dedicated to Robert Burns in her school in the village of Ploske. We visited her school to talk to the pupils there. We drove to our most easterly point, the city of Dnipropetrovsk, before turning south west to Kryvyi Rih, Europe's longest city (126km!), where it took some time for us to find out hotel ! Our performance there was organised by the independent youth arts charity, Shelter+, and was again a full house, with dozens of people eager to talk to us after the show. A marathon 14-hour drive west took us to the beautiful city of Lviv for sell-out performances at the Ivan Franko University and the Kurbas Theatre. Our final performance in Ukraine was in the small town of Pidhaitsi, close to the origin of the story, a very special performance. Matthew and film director Brian Ross stayed on in Pidhaitsi as the van drove out of Ukraine towards home, filming there and in the village of Hnilowody, the Tailor's birthplace, for a documentary film on the play, our touring in Eastern Europe and the Polish and Ukrainian post-war settlement in Scotland. This included another school visit. The film is produced by Hopscotch Films of Glasgow. We thanks Hopscotch and Creative Scotland for supporting this remarkable tour.
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