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.

Ada Rogovtseva on the love of the audience 

October 3, 2023, Kyiv.

A video interview with the couple Volodymyr Moskovchenko and Iryna Lubska, who revived the Luhansk Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater in Siverskodonetsk after 2014. They talk about the beginning of their theater life, how they got to Luhansk, moving because of the war, reviving the theater in Siverskodonetsk, and working with each other. They show the preserved calendars with Luhansk performances and old photos. Iryna weaves camouflage nets.

The theater couple of the Luhansk Theater

Creative evening of theater and film actor Bohdan Stupka in Chernivtsi, June 7, 1994.

In the video, Bohdan Stupka reads an excerpt from Lina Kostenko's historical novel "Berestechko" and performs a fragment of the play "Tevye-Tevel" together with theater and film actor Ostap Stupka.

Bohdan Stupka's creative evening

1992, Concert Studio of the Regional TV and Radio Company, Khmelnytskyi.

The video features a performance by Honored Artist of Ukraine, puppet theater actor Oleksandr Tsaruk as Grandfather Vasyl from Podillia.

Grandfather Vasyl from Podillia

A fragment of a black-and-white chronicle from the 1920s with the actors of the Berezil Theater: on video Les Kurbas, Maryan Krushelnytskyi, Ivan Maryanenko, Yosyp Girnyak and Hanna Babiivna.

Theater "Berezil": Les Kurbas and the Actors

A story about the performance of the Pryluky Studio "Our New Theater", dedicated to the Birthday of Taras Shevchenko and the Heroes of the Revolution, February 21, 2017.

Commentary by the director of the performance: Andriy Bakirov.

Honoring Shevchenko and the Heroes of the Revolution on stage

Art program "Shevchenko's Song" of the Transcarpathian State Television and Radio Company, March 3, 1997.

Works by Taras Shevchenko are performed by: soloist of the Transcarpathian Regional Philharmonic Nadia Pidgorodska, artist of this Philharmonic Borys Derda, concertmaster, teacher of the Uzhhorod Music School Larisa Golubeva.

The melody of Shevchenko's words

April 12, 2019, Lviv.

The plot is dedicated to the memory of the People's Artist of Ukraine Petro Benyuk.

On the video: National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Maria Zankovetska; fragments of performances with Petro Benyuk, in particular the play “Involuntarily Clowns”; poster for the premiere of the new play “Solo for Copper Trumpets”; fragment of the film “Roksolana” directed by Boris Nebieridze.

Comments: the actor’s brother Petro Benyuk; theater actor Yanush Yukhnytsky; director and playwright Orest Ogorodnyk.

Created by: Olena Danylo, Roman Hnatyshyn.

Reference: Petro Benyuk is an outstanding Ukrainian theater and film actor, People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). A graduate of the Kyiv Theater Institute, he worked at the National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after M. Zankovetska in Lviv, where he played over 70 roles. Laureate of many competitions and film festivals, awarded the Order of Merit of the 3rd degree.

Petro Benyuk — People's Artist of Ukraine

Chernivtsi State Television and Radio Company. The program “In the World of Operetta” for May 18, 1999 is dedicated to the National Operetta Theater and director Halyna Bogdanova. 

On the video: excerpts from the performance from the anniversary evening of the National Operetta Theater; interview with Halyna Bogdanova; various excerpts from performances; photo archive of actors and director; actors singing. 

Commentary by the director of the National Operetta Theater Halyna Bogdanova. 

The program was worked on by: Viktoriya Onufryk, Igor Sverida, Viktor Verkholiak, Tetyana Mishkovets. Andriy Tyutyunnyk. 

“In the World of Operetta”: Halyna Bogdanova 

Kharkiv, February 26, 2009.

The video shows the Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko “Berezil”, founded by Ukrainian director and actor Les Kurbas. A sign with the inscription “Quiet! There is a performance”, a box with attributes, actors playing on stage, an auditorium, a paper appeal of the theater staff to political parties due to the emergency state of the theater building: collapsed plaster, bricks, cracks. The facade of the theater, memorial plaques to Leonid Bykov, Marian Krushelnytsky, and Les Kurbas.