{"id":2886,"date":"2022-09-08T21:59:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/translatorium.com.ua\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2022-09-09T18:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:34:45","slug":"onlajn-prem-iera-vistavi-dim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/translatorium.com.ua\/en\/2022\/09\/onlajn-prem-iera-vistavi-dim\/","title":{"rendered":"Home. Online Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 17, 2020, the online premiere of the stage performance Home based on the play of the same name by the British playwright Nicola McCartney took place. This project is a collaborative work of the TRANSLATORIUM Literary and Translation Festival and the Kyiv Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy on the left bank of Dnipro, in particular the main director of the theater, Tamara Trunova. The project was supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The performance was broadcast with the support of the <\/span><\/i>OpenTheatre<\/span><\/i><\/a> platform.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Nicola McCartney\u2019s play <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i> was translated by Hanna Kyriienko, Oleksandra Vankevych, Olha Kovaliova, and Tetiana Savchynska in April 2019 as part of the TRANSLATORIUM Translation Residency held in partnership with the <\/span>Khmelnytskyi Development <\/span>Agency<\/span><\/a> with the support of the <\/span>Culture Bridges<\/span><\/a> program. The residency ended with a staged reading of the translation of the play at the Mykhailo Starytskyi Academic Music and Drama Theater in Khmelnytskyi with the participation of the theater actresses, directed by Dmytro Husakov. In addition, in June 2019, another reading took place within the framework of the International Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv with the participation of the translators of the play. The translation of the play became an important, interesting and completely new stage of the work of the TRANSLATORIUM festival. The more the festival team immersed themselves in the text, the more difficult it was to stop at what was done and not plan the future life of the completed translation. Therefore, after the readings, the search for opportunities to implement the Ukrainian translation of the play in the form of a performance on the stage of the theater began.<\/span><\/p>\n

Home<\/span><\/i> is a rather specific work. It is built on conversations between four extremely different women who are related to each other: the dialogues touch on the past, which is full of resentments and unresolved confusing questions, because of which the present, in which the characters live, is completely promiscuous, somewhat listless, and despairing. This is a dense text with many memories, with interruptions, and with unusual comments of the character, who has a communication disorder, and all this sounds in one small room. For directing, the task is not easy at all. By a happy coincidence, it was at this time that our paths crossed with Tamara Trunova, a theater director, the main director of the Kyiv Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy on the left bank of Dnipro, who was interested in the play and cooperation with the TRANSLATORIUM festival on the upcoming performance. It is important for Tamara Trunova to work with female roles in the theater, and in the play there were 4 female characters of different ages. In particular, the director\u2019s approach was based on the psychological knowledge of individual traumatic experience, which was revealed during the work on the text, and in the case of <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i> it was a study of family relationships and the possibilities of human interaction in general, traumatic relationships that are experienced by everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Tamara Trunova<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>

Putting the play on stage at the suggestion of translators is a rather unpopular practice, even unlikely. In general, the theater community does not interact too closely with the translation or literary community, so there are almost no such projects where the theater director collaborates with the translators of the play and shares the work on creating the performance. Additional difficulties are caused by the name of the Scottish playwright who is<\/span> completely unknown in Ukraine, and who is an outstanding representative of contemporary British drama. However, it is extremely interesting to do something for the first time, especially if a brave team has been formed for it. Therefore, having united their interests, the TRANSLATORIUM Festival and director Tamara Trunova took part in a competition from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and obtained grant support for the creation and showing of the stage performance <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i> based on the play by Nicola McCartney within the framework of the IV TRANSLATORIUM Literary and Translation Festival. The theme of the festival in 2020\u2014Form\u2014explored one of the fundamental questions faced by the spheres of literary studies and translation, in particular, significant attention was paid to the transformation of form and the transition of one form of art to another, that is why the showing of <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i> was planned as a central event, illustrating translation in the broadest sense\u2014from the plane of the written text to the plane of theatrical performative art.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the planned form of the performance underwent changes due to the pandemic and the quarantine regime, which greatly affected the work of the cultural sector, as a result of which many events were postponed and the activities of institutions were restricted. Guided by the main issue of 2020, health safety, the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation decided to support only those projects that were ready to go online. So this challenge was accepted and the project was transformed into the <\/span>Online Premiere of Home<\/span><\/i>, continuing work with the theme of form. From the beginning, the performance <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i> was planned for a small hall of the theater, but broadcasting the performance online just solved the issue of a small number of viewers, and in this case the limitation worked on the contrary as an opportunity to attract a much larger audience, which is also a very important aspect for the wider familiarization of Ukrainian audiences with British drama in the Ukrainian sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project team felt even more confident after partnering with the OpenTheatre platform\u2014the only team in Ukraine professionally engaged in the distribution of contemporary Ukrainian theater in an online format, it was they who agreed to broadcast the performance <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, the gradual preparation of the performance itself began. In July 2020, the casting of actresses for the online premiere of <\/span>Home<\/span><\/i> took place. 98 actresses from different cities of Ukraine applied for participating in the performance, and 24 actresses were invited to the second round of casting. It was not easy for the director Tamara Trunova to decide who would make up the acting quartet of this project, but soon the decision appeared organically and Svitlana Orlichenko, Iryna Mak, Maryna Klimova, and Nataliia Kobizka got the roles of Kat, Annie, Joe, and Jen. Subsequently, an intensive rehearsal period began for the actresses and the director: they got to know the characters, discussed the text of the play, interpreted the views and actions of the characters, and the actresses learned to feel their roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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