Audio recording of Taras Shevchenko's poem “My Thoughts, My Thoughts.” Read by Marko Kropyvnytskyi, 1906. Re-recorded from a 1965 gramophone record.

Ukrainian Radio, in collaboration with Suspilne Media Library, is releasing unique archival recordings collected over 100 years in the project “Treasures of the Ukrainian Radio Sound Archive.” Within its framework, you will hear the voices of outstanding writers, singers, legendary announcers, and music by Ukrainian Radio's artistic ensembles. You can listen to the recordings on the Public Media Library website and on the project's YouTube page.

"My thoughts, my thoughts!" - recites Marko Kropyvnytskyi

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2010.

The documentary is dedicated to the actors of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.

Comments and filming with the participation of the theater's artistic director Bohdan Stupka, general director Mykhailo Zakharevich, directors Oleksandr Bilozub and Andriy Prykhodko, actors - Victoria Vasalatiy, Yaroslav Gurevich, Anastasia Dobrynina, Tetyana Mikhina, Oleksandr Pecheritsa, Pavlo Piskun, Dmytro Rybalevsky, Anzhelika Savchenko, Bohdan Stupka, Olena Fesunenko, Oleksandr Formanchuk, Dmytro Chernov, Tetyana Shlyakhova.

In the role of the phantom theater - Oleksiy Petukhov. Voice-over - Oleksandr Vergelis.

Fragments of performances: Ivan Kotlyarevsky "Natalka Poltavka", William Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet", Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky "The Kaidash Family", Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov", Vasyl Stefanyk "The Hungry Sin", Oleksandr Belozub "Two Flowers of Indigo", Sholom Aleichem "Tevye Tevel", Johann Spies, Heinrich Geisselbrecht, Christopher Marlowe "The Legend of Faust", Bertolt Brecht "The Caucasian Chalk Circle", Yuriy Rybchinsky and Victoria Vasalatiy "Edith Piaf. Life on Credit".

Archives of the National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine and the Ivan Franko National Theater were used.

"Frankivsk 21st Century": about the theater

Volyn Television, 2000. The program "Remembering Veterans" is dedicated to an interview with the honored figure of culture and theater art Andriy Verteletsky.

The video contains archival recordings of theatrical performances at the Volyn Regional Taras Shevchenko Music and Drama Theater and an interview with the honored artist of Ukraine, actor of the Transcarpathian Regional Music and Drama Theater Andriy Verteletsky.

The program was worked on by: Lyudmila Vehera, Natalia Luhova, Oleksandr Sadovnyk, Yuriy Raevich.

Reference: Andriy Verteletsky is a Ukrainian actor, honored artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1972), worked in the theaters of Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Uzhgorod. In his creative work, he plays roles in classical Ukrainian dramatic productions and performs songs to the words of Taras Shevchenko.

Andriy Verteletsky: about love for the theater

1994, Ukrainian television. The author's program of the cycle “Your Exit, Artist!” by People's Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Stupka presents Honored Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Benyuk.

The video features Bohdan Stupka's screensavers, stand-up comedy, an interview with Ukrainian actor Bohdan Beniuk about his childhood, family, career, formation as a theater actor, and artists who played a significant role in his creative life.

The program used fragments of films: “Captain Crocus”, “Waves of the Black Sea”, “For the Home”, “Women's Joys and Sorrows”, “As the Soldiers Went Away”, “Theater Stories”, “The Witch”, “The Golden Chicken”, "Hold on, Cossack“, ”Lost in the Sands“, fragments of the theater performance ”That Pretty Encore“ and fragments of rehearsals for the play ”The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The song “My Daughter” by Bohdan Beniuk, music by O. Zhylynskyi, lyrics by O. Kononenko.

“You're up, artist!”: an interview with Bohdan Beniuk

The video shows the literary and artistic evening "Zankivchansky Evenings" in 1993.  
Valeriy Shevchuk, Ihor Kalynets, Bohdan Stelmakh, Mykhailo Kosiv, Roman Lubkivsky, Stefan Pyatnychko, and Estella Chupryk were the reciters at the event. The evening was hosted by Svyatoslav Maksymchuk and was devoted to the topic "Ukrainian Society - the Artist and the State".

Literary and artistic evening "Zankivchansky Evenings"

Kharkiv, 2007.

The guests of the programme ‘Theatre Salon’ are People's Artists of Ukraine Natalia Sumskaya and Anatoly Khostikoev, who talk about the division of professional and family responsibilities, theatrical roles, work in theatre, cinema and television, and mass culture.

The programme is hosted by Tatiana Kikteva and Alexander Annichev. The programme uses a fragment of the performance.

The Sumskaya-Khostikoyev acting duo

Radio Culture, program "My Theater", recorded in 2008. The guest of the studio is Valeriy Dudnyk, a teacher and actor of the Ivan Franko National Ukrainian Drama Theater.

The host is Natalia Kolomiets.

Valeriy Dudnyk: radio program "My Theater"

2008, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program “The House in which the Theater Lives” is dedicated to the history of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.

The video features the history of the theater's construction, an excursion into the theater life of Kyiv in the early twentieth century, archival newsreels from different years, fragments of performances, materials from the H. Pshenychnyi Central State Film Archive of Ukraine. Pshenychnyi, a fragment from the feature film “Chasing Two Hares”, archival photos of old Kyiv in the late nineteenth century, the artistic director of the Ivan Franko Theater Hnat Yura, actress of the Ivan Franko Theater Natalia Uzhviy, actor of the Ivan Franko Theater Arkadiy Hashynskyi, black-and-white photos of the Solovtsova Theater, silent film footage.

Comments: actress of the Ivan Franko Theater, Honored Artist of Ukraine Larysa Rusnak; People's Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Bystrushkin; artistic director of the Ivan Franko Theater Bohdan Stupka; People's Artist of Ukraine Larysa Khorolets.

Author: Tetiana Zhytska.

Ivan Franko Theater

Zaporizhzhia TV, 2004. The program “Portrait on the background...”. 

The program tells about the People's Artist of Ukraine, actor of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after V. H. Magar Oleksandr Hapon: his biography, family, work and theatrical career. 

Fragments of performances and operas with the participation of Oleksandr Hapon are used. 

Oleksandr Hapon: “Portrait on the Background...”

The Master Class programme features guests from the Lviv Academic Regional Puppet Theatre: the theatre's director and artistic director Yaroslav Synytsia, Honoured Artist of Ukraine Liudmyla Hriadova, and theatre actor Oleksandr Kochergin. 

They will talk about the early history of the puppet theatre, the first performance and its interpretation, the launch of the Golden Telesyk puppet theatre festival in 1996, and the Ukrainian fairy tale festival.

 Host: theater critic Svitlana Maksymenko.  The program includes fragments of performances.

Puppet theater: a conversation with actors

Ternopil TV, 2016. The program “At the distance of the soul”. 

The guest is theater and film actor Oleksii Vertynskyi. Fragments of films and performances with his participation are used. 

Oleksiy Vertinsky about his new project  

Ternopil TV, 2016. The program “At a distance of the soul”. 

The guest is theater and film actress Ada Rogovtseva. Fragments of films and performances with her participation are used.