MARUSYA CHURAI
MAY 22, 23, 24
MARUSYA CHURAI monoplay by Liudmula Kolosovych Event: Ukrainian & English language Play: Ukrainian, no subtitle Complimentary: drinks & snacks Parking and after party are an ADD ONS on the reservation section General Audience
A monodrama "Marusya Churai" is an epic story of a personal fate set against a great era. It is the voice of a woman born in the whirl of Cossack Ukraine in the 17th century — during a time of liberation struggle, losses, oaths, and betrayals.
Marusya appears not only as a legendary songwriter but as the spiritual nerve of the nation. Her life unfolds against the backdrop of historical upheavals — Cossack campaigns, the destruction of towns, moral choices that determined Ukraine’s fate. In her personal tragedy — the betrayal of her beloved, a trial, a death sentence — is reflected the tragedy of a people fighting for the right to dignity.
Through the novel’s poetic world, Lina Kostenko’s verses reveal a sweeping panorama of the epoch: Poltava as a symbol of spiritual fortitude, the Cossack honor as a moral code, the song as a chronicle that requires no chronicling.
"Marusya Churai" is a performance about a nation born through pain. About a song that is stronger than any verdict. About a woman whose voice becomes the voice of history.
In times when Ukraine again fights for its freedom, the figure of Marusya sounds not as a legend of the past, but as a contemporary summons: to preserve dignity, not to betray the heart, not to lose the voice. For as long as the song resounds, the people live.
Marusya appears not only as a legendary songwriter but as the spiritual nerve of the nation. Her life unfolds against the backdrop of historical upheavals — Cossack campaigns, the destruction of towns, moral choices that determined Ukraine’s fate. In her personal tragedy — the betrayal of her beloved, a trial, a death sentence — is reflected the tragedy of a people fighting for the right to dignity.
Through the novel’s poetic world, Lina Kostenko’s verses reveal a sweeping panorama of the epoch: Poltava as a symbol of spiritual fortitude, the Cossack honor as a moral code, the song as a chronicle that requires no chronicling.
"Marusya Churai" is a performance about a nation born through pain. About a song that is stronger than any verdict. About a woman whose voice becomes the voice of history.
In times when Ukraine again fights for its freedom, the figure of Marusya sounds not as a legend of the past, but as a contemporary summons: to preserve dignity, not to betray the heart, not to lose the voice. For as long as the song resounds, the people live.
Liydmula on the moment of performing
Do not miss the moment to turn back time and feel the power of Cossacks. One of the greatest worriers on the planet. Same as hundreds of years ago fights and love walking side by side.
Official poster created for L.K.
Marusya Churay is celebrated as a landmark in Ukrainian postwar literature for blending myth, history, and modernist poetics.
By foregrounding Marusya’s voice, Kostenko questions how history remembers women and the power of song to resist erasure.
Memorable moments are created together
Through Marusya, Kostenko explores themes of love, personal integrity, and the costs of artistic truth under patriarchal power.
The drama situates the heroine amid Ukraine’s borderlands and uprisings, framing her songs as a form of political and cultural memory.
Kostenko uses a dense, musical Ukrainian language, with refrains and shifts in perspective that resemble a stage ensemble.