Ukrainian drama translated into 10 languages

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Translated to: English
The text "I Want to Stop" by Natalia Blok, translated by John Freedman with Natalia Bratus, follows the journey of the...
2 F
4710 words / 7 pages
Translated to: English
The text "How to Talk to the Dead" by Anastasiia Kosodii, translated by John Freedman with Natalia Bratus, is a...
1 F
440 words / 2 pages
Translated to: English
Signs of the Times by Liudmyla Tymoshenko, translated by John Freedman with Natalia Bratus. It describes a series of...
1 F
608 words / 1 pages
157 Result(s)
Translator: Lydia Nagel
Translated to: Deutsch
2018 – No. 2 play at the First National Radiorama Contest. 2019 – premiered on the national radio channel “Culture” 2020...
Drama, love story, 7 Acts4 M, 2 F
4622 words / 19 pages
Translator: Raluca Rădulescu
Translated to: Românesc
A documentary about the Ukrainian children going through the first weeks of war after February 24. A play commissioned...
Art and documentary, 1 Act1 F
2244 words / 5 pages
Translated to: Český
Modern humans live in such a polluted information space that they lose sensitivity to the most terrible things...
Drama, 3 Acts
1 M, 3 F
12867 words / 27 pages
Translator: Estelle Delavennat
Translated to: Français
The production took place in the Theatre Laboratory (Kyiv, 2016).Video version -was made in Poltava Regional Theatre of...
drama quest, 2 Acts3 M, 4 F
19744 words / 51 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).