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DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE:

The performance by director Stas Zhyrkov and The Golden Gate Theatre team will surely stir, but it is unlikely that it will reduce the pain from the loss of loved ones. Even if they are quite close, but far away. Family ties, like ropes of insurance, keep us in this world... or maybe, even in the world, from which no one comes back.

Do you know how to clean the well? At first you should take a ladder, a shoulder blade, a bucket and an iron brush, and then you have to exhaust all water... Although why knowing it? Water is in the faucet... Why then does Alexander sees his dead father, and this well in the yard every night? Why is Alexander’s dad always talking about a well and never about whether he loved his son? Beloved ones die and there is emptiness… There once was a family - and where are they now? And who is this Albert, who for some reason thinks he can help? Somehow you need to live on - since someone needs to clean the well... Maybe this night Alexander finally will not yell in his dreams: "Father, did you love me?"

INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

The Golden Gate Theatre was founded in 1979 as the Theatre of Poetry, and in 1990 was renamed Golden Gate after the historical building in Kyiv, where one of its major plays premiered. In 2014 a young Ukrainian director, Stas Zhirkov, headed the theatre and changed it radically with the help of a new creative team. Its development took a turn in the direction of cooperation and exchange with progressive European theatre. Ksenia Romashenko, who has been with the creative team since 2014, has lead the theatre since 2019. The Golden Gate Theatre continues to adhere to the principles of openness and raise topical social issues in its performances. It supports young directors, actors, playwrights, and each year revitalises its repertoire with sensitive and relevant topics to remain interesting for its modern audience.

Dmytro Bohoslavskyi - is a Belarusian playwright, actor, director. One of the organizers of the Alternative Drama Studio. His plays were translated into Polish, Italian, Spanish and Ukrainian. The performances wear created in Minsk, Abakan, Ulan-Ude, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Kyiv, Krasnoyarsk, and others. The works of this author are awarded with prizes and awards from international dramaturgical contests and festivals.

FRAGMENTS OF REVIEWS:

"The play and the performance is a combination and alternation of several moving artistic plans. Chekhov's plan is the houses, gardens, and sisters; "Hallucinogenic" plan is what is inside the heads of some heroes. There is also an external plan - it is light-domestic. However, the play does not feature domestic imagery, but there is a sense of domestic attitude. And the inner life of the play implies keeping a thin border - between the world of alive and the world of the deceased. And it is not so important in which of them the actions happen. The son is tormented by hallucinogenic dreams, within which he wants to deal with the past. Sisters are suffering from problems with the implementation of the house, which, as in the "The Cherry Orchard", is already practically auctioned. Parallels - Alexander (as Andrei Prozorov), and sisters (as Chekhov Olga, Masha, Irina) - is far from the main thing in this stage plot. Since there is still a movement not along with the Chekhov's fables, but deep into the inside of a disturbed soul of a modern person."
(Oleg Vergelis)

LINKS:

Performance "Did you love me, dad?" by The Golden Gate Theatre from Kyiv is financed by the Ukrainian Cultural Foudation.

Did you love me, dad?

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