Visit by students of the educational program “Accounting, Analysis and Financial Investigations” (UFO-31c group) of the Maria Zankovetska National Drama Theater to the Theater Day

As part of educational events for the International Theater Day, students of the UFO-31s group (March 22, 2024) of the Faculty of Finance and Business Management of LNU named after Ivan Franko, together with the advisers of the group, associate professor of the Department of Accounting, Analysis and Control, Candidate of Economic Sciences Anna Petrivna Shot visited the National Drama Theater named after Maria Zankovetska and watched the performance “1984” OCCUPATION.

It is a plastic drama based on George Orwell’s novel 1984, which is one of the most famous dystopias in the world. Investigating the totalitarian regime and life in it, the writer predicted many phenomena that humanity faced much later. Unfortunately, this book is currently extremely relevant for Ukraine. In our opinion, it is appropriate to quote the words of director Vlada Belozorenko, who says this about the play: “Occupied and de-occupied territories of Ukraine are our imperceptible wound on the body of the state today, but it is so bitter and so painful that I cannot imagine how many generations have to live through this trauma, to completely recover from it. I want this story to remind us and the world that next to the physical war, another war is going on every day somewhere in the occupation – a man’s war for his humanity, for his personality, for his will.”

The students watched the play with incredible pleasure and listened to the group’s adviser’s story about the celebration of Theater Day, which has been celebrated annually around the world on March 27 since 1961, following the relevant decision at the IX Congress of the International Theater Institute under UNESCO. The theater is first mentioned in sources dating back to 497 BC. They talk about holding a holiday dedicated to the god Dionysus. The first theater building appeared in Rome in 55 BC, where poems and small plays, re-singings of legends and myths were performed. The first Ukrainian stationary theater was opened in Lviv in 1795, and 24 years later the first Ukrainian play “Natalka-Poltavka” by Ivan Kotlyarevsky appeared.