A new performance by teenagers from Ukraine

Adolescence should be a time of adventure and experimentation, allowing you to freely explore your identity. Meanwhile, teenagers from Ukraine are living this important period of their lives during the largest war in Europe after World War II. The play tells the personal stories of young Ukrainian men and women, their reflections on the reality in which they lived, as well as their dreams and visions for the future.

The independent theatre GAS was founded by three actresses - Sofiya Onishchenko (Sofiia Onishchenko), Daria Bogdan and Vasylyna Martseniuk (Vasylyna Martseniuk) - in 2022 after being forced to emigrate to Poland in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The GAS group takes its name from the play of the same name by Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian director and theatre reformer who worked during the so-called ‘shot revival’ period of the 1920s and 1930s. The play premiered exactly 100 years ago - in 1923 - in Kharkiv. The name hides an allusion to the rich oil and gas deposits in the eastern part of Ukraine, including the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which became one of the main reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.