The premiere of Viy performance based on a mystical story of Ukrainian-Russian writer Mykola Hohol, staged by Ukrainian contemporary Dakh Theatre and Swiss Vidy-Lausanne Theatre, will take place in Kyiv’s Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theatre on Jan.24.
It features two Swiss men who went to a small Ukrainian village, one seeking relatives who disappeared during the Holodomor in 1933 and the other looking for adventures and willing to meet real witches. The play is performed in Ukrainian and French language.
Viy. Jan.24. Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theatre (3 Ivana Franka Sqr.). 7 p.m. Hr 90-350
