Antratsyt: Perseverance Day
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine October 2021
Performance
Script and Direction: Pavlo Yurov,
Set and Costume design: Kate Lane
Music and sound design: Margaryta Kulichova (Grisly Faye)
Choreography: Oleksiy Busko
Sound director: Viacheslav Soboliev
Set construction: Taras Kovach
Assistant director: Valeriia Buradzhyieva
Costume supervisor: Veronika Finina
PR: Yaroslava Kravchenko
Project management: Anastasiya Gernega,
Film and Live Broadcast
Script and film direction: Vicki Thornton,
Director of Photography: Yarema Malashchuk,
Line producer: Rimma Mareychenko
Sound recordist: Andrii Nidzelskyi
Boom operator: Vitaliy Garkaviy,
Live edit and streaming engineer: Sasha Oduvanchikov
Live edit and streaming assistant: Kirill Zhorov
Camera operator: Artem Nadiozhyn
Gaffer: Oleg Bezbakh
Cast & Musicians
Natalka Kobizka, Anastasiia Kasilova, Oleksii Dorychevskyi, Roman Savchenko, Yevhen Chernykov, Ihor Aronov, Oksana Leuta, Anastasiia Metalnykova, Ruslan Hablo, Mykyta Skrypka, Kostiantyn Kyrylenko, Artemii Alokhin, Kostiantyn Trembovetskyi
Music: Margaryta Kulichova, Andrii Hazin, Oleksandr Ivancheskul
Choir: Folk vocal ensemble "NADIYA" (“HOPE”)
Antratsyt: Perseverance Day, premiered at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv in October 2021 within the project, House of Mining: an international co-production produced by Touchpoint NGO (UA) and Grand Duke Films (UK), in association with Wild Theatre and with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and House of Europe.
Antratsyt: Perseverance Day, premiered at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv in October 2021. It was an interdisciplinary performance combining live cinema and theatre. It was Written and Directed by Pavlo Yurov and Vicki Thornton.
The performance was within the project House of Mining: an international co-production produced by Touchpoint NGO (UA) and Grand Duke Films (UK), in association with Wild Theatre and with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and House of Europe.
Production Copy: Oleksiy is an ordinary miner. After losing his best friend, Ruslan, during a mining accident, he becomes wracked with remorse and guilt. One day, however, when another miner takes his photograph during their annual holiday celebration, the camera’s flash suddenly transports him into the past. Oleksiy discovers that he is able to travel through time and intervene in events, changing the course of history forever.
