Ukrainian drama translated into 13 languages

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Military hospital. Six wounded soldiers struggle not only with pain, but also with the ghosts of their past, the shadows...
7 M, 3 F, 3 K
124337 words / 59 pages
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Translated to: English
The only way to talk frankly is to confess to a stranger. Especially when both of you are in the semi-darkness, it is...
2 M
7487 words / 33 pages
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An adult daughter reunites with her mother after many years of separation. The mother left Ukraine back in the 1990s and...
1 M, 2 F
11605 words / 26 pages
210 Result(s)
Translator: Lydia Nagel
Translated to: Deutsch
Main character named Robinson (a hint at a novel by Selin) is going through the first days of war in Kyiv. His family...
Dramedi, 1 Act4 M, 4 F, 1 K
2340 words / 11 pages
Translator: John Farndon
Translated to: English
A house of a mysterious family in a world lost in the mist. No one knows where the bombs are coming from or who is...
Fantasy drama, 1 Act1 M, 3 F
8933 words / 28 pages
Translator: Iryna Beschetnova
Translated to: Français
This text is about my February 24, 2022, the beginning of the war in Ukraine on a large scale, and in it: people's...
wartime drama
1139 words / 6 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
 
 
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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).