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Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre (Kiev)

3 Ivana Franko Square, Kiev (tel.: +38 044 279-59-21, +38 044 279-59-91, +38 044 279-58-81, +38 044 279-71-01), Metro stations: "Khreshchatyk", "Ploshchad Nezavisimosti".

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Until the early 20th century, there was a small pond in the Professor Mehring's estate in place of the modern Ivana Franko Square. After Mehring died, his heirs sold the estate and the infield. New streets and buildings began to appear very rapidly. The pond was filled up. And Nikolayevskaya Square arose there. In 1898, a two-storeyed building of Solovtsov Theatre was constructed in the Square upon the project of Eduard Bradtman and Georgiy Shleifer.

The first performances of Solovtsov Theatre were staged in October 1898.

In 1919, after the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Theatre was nationalized and renamed the Second Lenin Theatre of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1926, Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theatre (the Theatre, for short) settled in the building of Solovtsov Theatre. It was established in Vinnytsia in 1920.

As stated above, in 1920, a small company was formed in Vinnytsia. It was headed by Ignat Yura, the prominent Ukrainian actor. The first production of the Theatre's company was the performance "Son" (based on the story by Vladimir Vinnichenko). All actors of the Theatre were young. And later many of them went down to the history of Ukrainian theatre. Actors of the new company worked 24 hours a day. They staged 23 new performances during their first season. Newspapers named the popular theatre the Theatre of the New Age.

After going on tours for three years, the company was invited to Kharkov, the former capital of Ukraine, where it was given a permanent stage. This day ushered in a new period in the Theatre's history formed of the small provincial company.

In summer of 1926, the Theatre moved to Kiev and settled in an old building that it still occupies. On 30 September, "Viy", the author's interpretation of the Nikolai Gogol's horror story by Ostap Vyshnia, was staged there.

Ignat Yura was the art director of the Theatre for over 40 years (1920–1966). This steadiness resulted in recognisable style and repertoire of the Theatre. The Theatre's aesthetics was mainly based on principles of realism and national heritages.

The 1930s were the flowering years of the Theatre. Productions of "Don Carlos", the tragedy by Friedrich Schiller, and "Boris Godunov", the poem by Alexander Pushkin, were included in the repertoire. However, special attention was paid to plays by Ukrainian writers such as Platon Krechet and Alexander Korneychuk.

The Theatre did not stop working even during the most terrible years of World War II. The actors went on tours around the USSR and played to soldiers being at the front and evacuated people.

In 1959 and 1960, the Theatre's building was reconstructed; the second floor was built over. A cosy garden with a cast-iron bowl-shaped fountain in the middle (mounted in 1900) was laid out in front of the Theatre.

The Theatre's actors have been successful in the films too. For example, the film "Rainbow", starring Natalya Uzhviy as guerilla woman Yelena Kostuk, won the Oskar and was recognized as a classic of world cinema.

In 1994, the Theatre was awarded the status of National Theatre. Since then, it is known as Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre.

Since the early 1990s, the Theatre has gone on tours a lot. Theatre goers from Germany, Austria, Greece, Italy and Poland have a chance to know the Ukrainian Theatre, productions of which have been always highly evaluated.

The Theatre cherishes traditions of Ukrainian drama and tries to combine them with achievements of modern European drama. Such productions as "The Government Inspector" based on the play by Nikolai Gogol and "Carmen" based on the opera by Georges Bizet are bright examples of off-beat presentations.

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Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre



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