Ukrainian drama translated into 13 languages

We help directors and producers to find playscript of Ukrainian Contemporary Drama to save their energy and time to put it on stage

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Translated to: English
Have you ever been in love? Well, Lukyana might be. Sometimes. Rather than face up to her husband-to-be she decides to...
3 M, 2 F
7957 words / 32 pages
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Translated to: English
The neighbors are waiting out the air raid alert on the stair landing near the out-of-service elevator.
2 M, 1 F
1919 words / 12 pages
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“Thermobalance” is a minimalist one-minute play that explores the psychological survival of two soldiers - a student and...
1 M, 1 F
1226 words / 4 pages

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270 Result(s)
Translator: Iana Gudzenko
Translated to: English
Internet conversations of four teenagers from Irpin in the first days and weeks of the war. A story about how children...
Drama, short stories, 1 Act2 M, 2 F
1984 words / 8 pages
Translator: Anna Halas
Translated to: English
He's a distinguished theater and film actor, while she's a budding young actress. Yet, they found themselves on a film...
history drama1 M, 1 F
6274 words / 20 pages
Translator: John Freedman
Translated to: English
The text was written after watching a video. It was made by Ukrainian soldiers on the front line on the 100th day of...
Drama, 1 Act
450 words / 2 pages
Translated to: English
"The Knock on the Door" is a poignant and unsettling story that delves into the experiences of Oksana, Taras, Lesia, and...
Drama, 1 Act2 M, 2 F
4013 words / 9 pages
 
 
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About the project

Digital library of the Ukrainian drama translations serves to promote the national dramaturgy worldwide, the successful communication between the contemporary Ukrainian authors and theatres around the world, and to foster new creative partnerships.

Convenient search engine will help you find plays of the Ukrainian playwrights translated into the language of your choice, and generate the search by genre, period of creation, subject, text size, number of characters, etc.

Each text in the library has an ID card, a synopsis and information about the author and the translator in English.

Here you will be able to read big fragments but the entire text for reading, commercial or non-commercial use, can be obtained from the copyright holders whose contacts can be found on the first page of the play and in the authors’ profiles. 

The Library is founded by the Ukrainian Institute in partnership with Worldwide Readings Project and Birkbeck Center for Contemporary Theater. It is based on the global initiative funds of the Worldwide Readings Project and the Ukrainian Institute program Transmission.ua: drama on the move.

Website is created with the financial support of the International Relief Fund of the Federal Foreign Office and Goethe-Institut Ukraine within framework of the “Theatrical Windows. Work in Progress” – a project implemented by the NGO “Theatre na Zhukah”. Coordinating partner – platform UkrDramaHub.

Open structure promotes continuous renewal of the Library’s funds. Ukrainian playwrights are welcome to submit the translations of their plays via this form

Prior to publishing on the Website, quality of translations will be verified by the Expert Council: Lydia Nagel (German), Elli Salo (Finnish, Swedish, Slovak), Molly Flynn (English), Miloslav Juráni (Slovak), Iulia Popovici (Romanian) and Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun (Polish).