Theatre artists flooding into Calgary launch STRUM, the city's first Ukrainian theatre company
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Calgary is getting a new theatre company that’s not quite like any other theatre company in the city.
Calgary is getting a new theatre company that’s not quite like any other theatre company in the city.
STRUM UA Theatre is having its launch party Thursday night at The Collector’s Gallery of Art in Inglewood, where a group of Ukrainian-Calgarian actors will perform some poems and music to celebrate the occasion.
The performance will be in Ukrainian with English subtitles.
The company is being launched by Snizhauna Gukasian-Korobeinkova and Anna Lupeko, two Ukrainian artists who are among the thousands of Ukrainians who have settled in Alberta due to the war with Russia.
Both settled in Calgary 14 months ago and have already acted in a number of shows here, including a Front Row Centre theatre production of A Chorus Line (Lupeko), while Gukasian-Korobeinkova acted in a Workshop Theatre production of Dracula and a Scorpio/Morpheus co-production of Sylvia.
“The main difference between theatre in Ukraine (is that) we have repertoire theatre where shows are played for years,” Lupeko said. “The troupe is constant and we almost don’t have castings for theatre productions.”
Why STRUM?
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