Ukrainian drama translated into 9 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
Amidst the chaos of an unexpected attack, a mother of three is forced to flee her country and begin a journey of...
2 F
2589 words / 9 pages
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Translated to: English
First-person story of personal problems with a boyfriend against the background of the outbreak of war.
1242 words / 4 pages
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Translated to: Polski
First-person story of personal problems with a boyfriend against the background of the outbreak of war.
1 F
981 words / 4 pages
148 Result(s)
Translated to: English
Three brief, semi-independent, but partially interlocking, scenes taking place in Ukraine after the Russian invasion. 1)...
Drama, 1 Act5 M, 7 F
1885 words / 5 pages
Translated to: English
What can you compare the sound of a nail with which a coffin is hammered? When a ballistic missile flies into your...
monodrama, 1 Act1 F
1619 words / 3 pages
Translator: Lydia Nagel
Translated to: Deutsch
Four women, named after musical instruments, talk about a quiet stable life in the sanatorium. It provides everything...
Opera libretto
4 F
6748 words / 55 pages
Translated to: English
Tragic and comic history of the Ukrainian village in the first days of the Russian occupation. While reading the...
Drama with elements of comedy, 1 Act1 F
1087 words / 2 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).