Sirenos'24: Šiandien niekas nežuvo

Director: Nina Khyzhna
Composer: Nick Acorne
Performers: Artem Vusyk, Dmytro Tretiak, Vladyslava Chentsova, Nina Khyzhna
Supported by: Monika Knegel, Victoria Fux
Producers: Teatr Neft (Ukraine), Theater im Bahnhof (Austria)

Premiere: 2022
Duration: 90 min
Language: Ukrainian and English. with Lithuanian with subtitles
Age limit: 17+
* The show plays loud music, swear words are used

The city was drowning in twilight and the feeling was so strange. Some kind of gray fog, as if invisible, but you constantly feel it, even when you breathe. And everything around seems polluted. I don't even know how to explain. All the buildings are the same, all the streets are the same, the people look so similar... And everything is so gloomy. They seem to have done something to our air... Hell, this is my town, I know it well, but they have brought the smell of death here.

quote from the play

The city we live in is our extended personal space, which is as big as we are able to go around, see, and think about every day. These are our chosen streets, squares, benches, cafes - places where we feel safe and cozy. But what happens when the arteries of the beloved city are torn apart by the tanks of the occupying army?

The creators of Kharkiv (Nafta Theater) with the director Nina Khyzhna at the forefront of the documentary performance "Today no one died" open up the traumas of their city, themselves and collective Ukraine. Movement, physical experience and physical presence with the audience play an important role in the performance. The music for the performance was composed by composer Nick Acorne.

"Today nobody died" is a work based on the stories, reflections and insights of Ukrainian soldiers, volunteers and creators of the performance about internal transformations, revaluation of values, perception of time and space and a sense of belonging.

Telling their own and others' personal stories, Ukrainians reflect on the experiences that the war has forced them into: the nearness of death, the constant search for a safe place, anger, fatigue, living in strange places and endless disputes with defenders of pacifism. Reacting to the ideas of "peace at any price", detachment and "war fatigue" prevailing in Western European society, they publish a manifesto:

"We don't know how long this will last a war, who will come home, who will survive and what will be the cost of our freedom. We did not plan to become soldiers, volunteers, medics or leave home. We did not choose this war, but we must win it. This play was created to give a voice to our friends who are now risking their lives to defend what we love.”

Nafta Theater

Nafta Theater is an alternative independent theater founded in Kharkiv in 2018.

Nafta is an open theater platform , which does not have a permanent troupe and does not follow classical canons. Actors, directors, musicians, choreographers and artists can join Nafta with their ideas, assemble a team and initiate a new theater project.

According to the creators themselves, Nafta " means openness, experiments, new forms and creative synergy. The goals that artists set for themselves are "to destroy standards, destroy frames and burn with content".

Nina Khyzhna is a Ukrainian theater director, actress and performer. , teacher and choreographer. Studied theater and film acting at Kharkiv National Kotliarevsky University of Arts. Worked in European theaters in Poland (alternative theater BRAMA, "Teatr Powszechny"), Slovakia and Austria. In various theater projects, Nina cooperates with independent Ukrainian theaters "Teatr beautiful flowers", theater "Nafta", "Varta". As an actress and performer, she worked at the Taras Shevchenko Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv State Theater for Children and Youth. Her performances toured the stages of Poland, Germany, Italy, and Ukraine. Nina works in physical theater, performance art and documentary.

Time: October 11. 19:00
Place: Art printing house, Juodoji salė (Šiltadaržio st. 6, Vilnius)
Duration of the event: 90 min.
Language: Ukrainian and English. with Lithuanian with subtitles
Age limit: 17+
Discounts: students, schoolchildren, seniors, people with disabilities.
Loud music is played in the performance, profanity is used

Late spectators are not allowed into the hall.

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