The urging need to verbalise and speak about corruption erupts a stream of consciousness and numerous performative hallucinations, which reveal childhood memories, personal traumas and confessions, feelings of helplessness and self-deprecation. For both performers, this is a gesture of liberation and emancipation: from the need to learn scripts by heart, from the scriptwriter, from the authority, from the boss, from the Father. Eventually, the anti-authoritarian motif, as well as anti-oligarchic and patriotic narratives, become frequent side effects of anti-corruption movements.

Restaurant ‘Ukraine’ was created as an independent production  within the Bestehend project in collaboration between Goethe-Institut Ukraine and Federal Agency for Civic Education, supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

Genre: Performance, devised theatre, postdramatic theatre
Language: Ukrainian, Russian
Surtitles: English

Dramaturgy: Dmytro Levytsky. Research: Piotr Armianovsky. Performers: Nina Khyzhna, Oksana Cherkashyna. Stage design and sound: Yevhen Yakshyn. Light design: Yevhen Kopiov.