MOTHER'S LULLABY
JULY 10, 11 AUGUST 1 SEPTEMBER 19
MOTHER'S LULLABY monoplay by Liudmula Kolosovych about survivor city IRPIN Event: Ukrainian & English language Play: Ukrainian, English subtitle Parking and after party are an ADD ONS on the reservation section PG-13
“MOTHER’S LULLABY” is an intimate documentary-theatrical performance about returning to Irpin — a Hero City liberated from Russian occupation, which has become both a symbol of destruction and of resilience. The space of ruined buildings and damaged homes emerges as a landscape of memory, where personal history intertwines with the history of an entire nation.
At the heart of the performance lies the experience of returning home after de-occupation, reflecting on loss and preserving identity through personal talisman-objects: a mother’s headscarf as a symbol of family continuity, and a Frida Kahlo marionette created by Ukrainian puppet artist Yevhen Nevynskyi for a previous artistic project. After the artist’s death at the front, the puppet acquires new meaning — becoming a material testimony of presence, memory, and an unfinished dialogue between art and war.
The performance explores motherhood in wartime: mothers living between fear and hope, memory and faith, loss and unconditional love. “MOTHER’S LULLABY” raises questions of personal and collective trauma, the responsibility of art during war, and the role of cultural memory in the process of societal recovery.
At the heart of the performance lies the experience of returning home after de-occupation, reflecting on loss and preserving identity through personal talisman-objects: a mother’s headscarf as a symbol of family continuity, and a Frida Kahlo marionette created by Ukrainian puppet artist Yevhen Nevynskyi for a previous artistic project. After the artist’s death at the front, the puppet acquires new meaning — becoming a material testimony of presence, memory, and an unfinished dialogue between art and war.
The performance explores motherhood in wartime: mothers living between fear and hope, memory and faith, loss and unconditional love. “MOTHER’S LULLABY” raises questions of personal and collective trauma, the responsibility of art during war, and the role of cultural memory in the process of societal recovery.
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.
Creators of the play together with Liudmyla and Frida.
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.