Shakespeare, Trauma, and Social Change: Inclusive Ukrainian Theatre Projects (2019–2023)

Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.31.15

Autor

Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii Uniwersytet Lwowski https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7550-1131

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.31.15

Słowa kluczowe:

inclusive theatre, Shakespeare and disability, Shakespeare and trauma, Shakespeare in Ukraine, theatre as a therapy, art-therapy practicing, integrative theatre, inclusiveness in the theatre

Abstrakt

This article focuses on the analysis of art-therapeutic, inclusive theatre projects in Ukraine that were based on Shakespeare’s plays and implemented from 2019 to 2023. The goal of these projects was deeply integrative: to draw public attention to people with disabilities, war veterans, and children whose parents were on the frontline. In addition, the aim of the theatre projects was to help these groups be heard, to provide them with the tools and a platform to tell their stories through archetypal, recognisable narrative patterns. The article explores the production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will based on Shakespeare’s comedy with veterans and volunteers of the Russian-Ukrainian war (‘Project W’), directed by Oleksii Hnatkovskyi, 2019; the inclusive project 12 Ophelia by the Kharkiv Arabesque Studio Theatre, 2019; and the production Monster Opera based on Shakespeare with children of the military, directed by Nigel Osborne, 2023.

Biogram autora

Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii - Uniwersytet Lwowski

Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii is Associate Professor of the Theatre Studies and Acting Department at the Faculty of Culture and Arts of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Cultural Studies Department at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). She co-organised a summer theatre school during the Second Shakespeare Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine). Since 2023, she has been co-editing the academic theatre journal Proscenium. She is a member of the Association of Puppeteers of Ukraine: UNIMA Ukraine and heads its scientific and publishing commission.

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