A Festival of Ukrainian Culture

The National Academic Theatre of Russian Drama Lesya Ukrainka in Kiev is staging this festival of four plays, two film screenings and a photography exhibition over at St James Theatre. The four plays include 'Ward of the Manor', 'My Mocking Happiness', 'Life's Little Nothings' and 'Don Juan' and they will all be performed in Russian and live dubbed by a translator in the auditorium. 'Ward of the Manor' (8-10 Sept) is a new translation of Turgenev's 'Fortune's Fool' while 'My Mocking Happiness' (11-12 September) is a piece created from the personal correspondence between Chekhov and his wife Olga and his close friend Lika Mizinova. 'Life's Little Nothings' is based on the short stories of Chekhov, while 'Don Juan' is an interpretation of the age old story by Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka.