‘Our destroyed theatre’s heart still beats’: Mariupol’s actors return to the stage, two years on
Mar 16, 2024
Players who survived a Russian strike on a theatre where over 1,000 people sheltered are taking to the stage to tell their storiesWhen the bombs hit the Mariupol Drama theatre, Vira Lebedynska did not hear a boom or a blast. From the recording studio in the theatre’s basement, where she was sheltering along with a few other theatre employees, the sensation was more like a vacuum.“There was a whoosh, and a feeling that the air was being sucked out of the room,” she recalled. A few seconds earlier, her cat Gabriel had suddenly tensed, perhaps sensing the sound of a plane overhead. Then there was chaos: shouting, screaming, panicking. Continue reading...
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