Letters Home — Theatre Performance

A theatre project that brings together Ukrainians living in the Netherlands and those who remain in Ukraine. This is a performance about home, belonging, loss, and the connection between people separated by thousands of kilometres. Through the personal stories of its participants, the project explores how our idea of home changes and what it means to remain part of a community when war forces people to live in different countries.
“Letters home” was created by United Ukrainian Theatre in the Netherlands together with the Theatre Platform "Actor's House" (Dim aktora) in Zaporizhzhia.
The project involves professional actors, internally and externally displaced Ukrainians, and war veterans from Ukraine and the Netherlands. The performance shows radically different experiences of one and the same war. The stories of different people reveal the complex reality of Ukrainian society after four years of full-scale war — and at the same time demonstrate the bond that Ukrainians continue to feel with one another, despite distance and borders.

An open discussion will take place after the performance.
🎭 Language of the performance: Ukrainian
💬 Subtitles: English

United Ukrainian Theatre cast: Amina Onufriienko, Artem Smotrych, Alesia Andrushevska, Milana Mezentsova, Taisiia Ahaieva, Kseniia Serhiienko, Mark Derhousov, Svitlana Chumachenko, Olena Rechych, Oksana Kriazheva, Sasha Serova, Anastasiia Pylypenko, Dmytro Kiriakov.
Cast of the Zaporizhzhia Theatre Platform "Actor's House": Olha Bilichenko, Yevheniia Tsarehorodtseva, Yan Klipp, Kseniia Boichenko, Olha Donik.
Project leader and director: Yasha Hudzenko
Dramaturgy workshops: Alexander Shroyder, Sasha Denysova

Project support
The project was created with the financial support of Culture Helps Solidarity — a programme co-funded by the European Union and implemented by the European Cultural Foundation (the Netherlands), Insha Osvita (Ukraine), Zusa (Germany) and VETERANKA Movement (Ukraine).