Mothermotherland

Performance Dates: December 15 - 16, 2022
Location: Highmark Theatre

Performance run time is approximately 60 minutes and will be followed by a talk-back with the artists.

Mothermotherland, by Slovo. Theater Group, is an original devised theater performance developed by Ukrainians in residence with playwright Audrey Rose Dégez. The performance is based on the artists’ personal experiences, the war in Ukraine, and takes inspiration from Mykoly Khyvylovy’s 1924 novella I am (a Romantic), where the head of the local Cheka, a communist law enforcement agency, must decide whether or not to sentence his mother to death in the name of the ideals of the Commune.

FEATURING: Audrey Rose Dégez, Lili Maritchka, Dégez, Daria Holovchanska, Yuliia Linnik, Olesia Zakharova, and Veronika Shuster

Slovo. Theater group is a group of Ukrainian and American artists that are creating the performance “Mothermotherland” in the United States. Performance “Mothermotherland” is based on the short story “I am (Romance)” by Ukrainian writer of the Executed Renaissance period Mykola Khyvylovy. Contributions welcome at colab-arts.org/donate

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