The seven-day pan-European theater festival Fokus Ukraine 777 Tage Days, dedicated to the war in Ukraine, is coming to an end in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The program includes about two dozen thematic performances created during the period of Russia’s full-scale military operations in Ukraine by leading Ukrainian companies and theater artists from Poland, Belarus, Estonia and Germany.
Tickets for all days were sold out even before the opening. Moreover, as the project’s co-coordinator Stas Zhirkov emphasized, 80 percent of the audience were Germans. And this is a very important result.
For Ukrainians, tickets to all festival performances cost 1 euro. In addition, the program included many open, free events. There was a book cinema with Ukrainian fairy tales for kids.
We would like to add that the Dusseldorf D-haus Dusseldorfer Schauspielhaus, a city theater, became a hospitable home for the international theater community, as its staff has been actively supporting Ukraine since the beginning of the war, providing one of its stages for creative explorations of Ukrainian theater artists.
The new wartime Odyssey and Oresteia. After the War” with the participation of real Ukrainian refugees. While working on these plays, a wonderful creative tandem was formed between the theater’s playwright Birgit Lengerns and Ukrainian director Stas Zhirkov. They initiated and curated the Fokus Ukraine 777 Tage Days Festival.
