Ukrainian drama translated into 11 languages

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Translated to: Deutsch
Das Stück basiert auf Interviews mit Menschen, die im März/April 2022 im Kyjiwer Gebiet unter russischer Besatzung leben...
3 M, 3 F
8425 words / 34 pages
Translated to: English
A resident of one of the settlements in Brovary district, Alevtina, tells the former chairman, Fedorovich, about her...
1 M, 1 F
3155 words / 6 pages
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Translated to: Deutsch
The drama takes place in a person's mind, torn between voices from the past and the present. It tells the story of how...
7 M, 1 F, 1 K
3798 words / 24 pages
182 Result(s)
Translator: Iryna Beschetnova
Translated to: English
First-person story of personal problems with a boyfriend against the background of the outbreak of war.
Drama
1242 words / 4 pages
Translated to: English
A gripping story based on a dream seen by the author. The main character is making his way to a mysterious building...
Postdrama, 13 Acts
6 M, 1 F
3971 words / 13 pages
Translator: John Farndon
Translated to: English
A woman in dark glasses is selling orphaned kittens – a white, a gray and a black one – all what is left of her house...
Donbas farewell monologue, 1 Act
1 F
11930 words / 22 pages
Translator: Ján Štrasser
Translated to: Slovak
One of the most prominent Ukrainian plays of the last decade. The work consists of six independent scenes that observe...
6 M, 9 F
12525 words / 45 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).