January 22 at 5:00 p.m. in the Lviv Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka will host the premiere of the play “Agora” – a play about civic responsibility based on Plato’s texts.
Agora is a delirium session inspired by the ancient Greeks. Armed with a sense of humor and small-scale provocations, the actors of the Lesi theater will think about justice, responsibility, integrity and ways of harmonious coexistence of such different people in one Ukraine.
The director of the production is Piotr Armyanovskyi, a performer and documentarian originally from Donetsk.
“The biggest motivation for creating this play was the feeling that after our victory, our life should not be the same as it was before the full-scale war. We are now faced with problems that will only intensify after the victory — from environmental problems to corruption problems. Therefore, it is wrong to expect that the boys and girls who will come from the front will solve all the problems.
We are engaged in theater, so we want to highlight the issue of joint responsibility in this way. And we turn to Plato’s texts as an attempt to understand what the art of living together means,” says Piotr about the play “Agora”.
Also worked on the play:
Dramaturgy — Piotr Armyanovskyi and Anastasia Kosodiy
Scenography — Kateryna Markush and Maria Khomyakova
The costume designer is Maria Khomyakova
Choreography and work with physicality — Viktor Ruban
Choirmaster — Oksana Tsimbalist
Sound directors — Volodymyr Pomirko, Lyubomyr Ishchuk
Lighting artist — Artur Temchenko
Media support — Pavlo Kowalskyi
Yuriy Zakharko is the head of the artistic and production department
The director’s assistant is Svitlana Ilyuk
The requisitionist is Marta Bozhik
Designers — Marta Bozhik, Solomiya Ortynska
The design artist is Serhii Stolyaruk
Zakrynytsia – Iryna Musikhina
Costume designers — Halyna Gladun, Diana Yanchuk
Installers — Oleg Zherebetskyi, Serhii Lytvynenko, Volodymyr Prodius
PR — Victoria Dzizyuk, Rostyslav Kuzyk
Design — Olena Konoval, Maria Mykytenko
The characters:
Alcibiades — Rostislav Kolachnyk/Andrii Roschis
The one who looks more like Socrates is Vasyl Kolisnyk
The one who speaks more like Socrates is Isabel Merkulova
Flutist — Anastasia Perets/Tetyana Shelelyo
The premiere of the performance will take place on January 22 at 5:00 p.m. on the small stage of the Lesi Theater (36 Horodotska St.; entrance through the gate from Zahysnykiv Ukrainy Street).
The premiere of the performance will take place on January 22 at 5:00 p.m. on the small stage of the Lesi Theater (36 Horodotska St.; entrance through the gate from Zahysnykiv Ukrainy Street).
Tickets can be purchased here or at the theater box office.