The Ivano-Frankivsk National Theater named after Ivan Franko decided to play iconic performances from its repertoire in the theater basement, which during the war became a bomb shelter, that is, a place of shelter both for Ivano-Frankivsk residents and for numerous guests of the city, who today are looking for salvation and protection on.

According to the director and artistic director of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Theater of People's Artist of Ukraine Rostyslav Derzhipilsky, in the first days of the war, the Frankivsk Drama Theater turned into a large-scale "

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The theater actively implements volunteer projects and at the same time, according to the artistic director, does not forget about the creative component of the life of a large theatrical organism. The Western Franks have already initiated the theatrical (musical) project " The goal of the project is to return to the bosom of national culture those Ukrainian songs (melodies) that in Soviet times were actually stolen by the Russians for propaganda purposes and subsequently presented as the property of the Soviet song heritage.. As an example, the song " In fact, the basis of the popular melody is the Ukrainian song " And there are dozens of such examples.. Yuri Andrukhovich acts as an active participant in the Stolen Songs project - both as a writer and as a commentator.

Even before the war, the West Franks organically adapted their large theater basement into a creative Shakespearean space. Loud performances based on the works of V. Shakespeare staged by Rostislav Derzhipilsky - "

In the Shakespearean space for native theater spectators and for numerous guests of Frankivsk, performances of " According to the director, the current stage space of the basement-bomb shelter gives popular productions new artistic and even ideological dimensions.. " Today, our actors are working for the victory of Ukraine, as volunteers and as warriors, including on the information and creative front,"

A special event in the framework of the bomb shelter scene took place on March 11, when the Western Franks for the first time in military realities played their famous play " Spectators of Hamlet in the bomb shelter note that the performance in the current war times has noticeably changed both the artistic rhythm and its semantic coloring, when the audience perceives Hamlet not only as a philosopher prince, but also as a warrior prince who seeks to unite in times of madness. family and state ties, and also tries to prevent an uninvited guest from entering his native land (in Shakespeare's story, this is Fortinbras, and in our case, "

Through social networks, the outstanding British Shakespeare scholar Michael Dobson (Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stretford-upon-Avon) found out about Frank's " He saw the Ukrainian Hamlet back in peacetime, in 2018, in the same Frankovsky theater basement and left his enthusiastic response after the performance.

At present, the guru of British Shakespeare studies supported the Ukrainian theater in its creative and humanitarian actions during the war and, for its part, wrote about the desire to allocate several rooms in his house for refugees from Ukraine.

Upcoming theatrical screenings in Shakespeare's theatrical bomb shelter in Ivano-Frankivsk: March 16 - " And on March 20 - the musical " Barnicha. One of the highest-grossing Ukrainian performances, the musical about Hutsulka Ksenia in love, will also, under the current military realities, be forced to change the spatial format and move from the big stage to a safe shelter - to a theatrical bomb shelter.