Georg Genoux, the director and the curator of documentary, social and therapeutic theater, and Natalia Vorozhbyt, a playwright, will talk about documentary theater as the only way out of the artistic ghetto into real life. According to Natalia Vorozhbyt, “the theater in Ukraine must start again, breaking with both Soviet and traditional dispositions. It is necessary to use one’s own experience and work with the experience of others.”

The play Mykolaivka by the Theater of the Internally Displaced will be shown on March 26 at 5 p.m. on the premises of Docu/Class workshop.

Georg Genoux is one of the most experienced directors and curators of documentary, social and therapeutic theater projects in Eastern Europe. He is one of the co-founders of Theatre.doc in Moscow. He has staged and produced more than 70 theater projects in Eastern Europe, many of them with his company Democracy.doc, in cooperation with the European Commission, the Memorial Society in Moscow, the Goethe Institute, the German Embassy, the Polish Cultural Center, etc.

Natalia Vorozhbyt is a playwright, screenwriter, curator. Graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. Worked as an intern in the USA and the UK. Author of more than twenty plays, film and TV scripts. Works on the development of contemporary Ukrainian drama and documentary theater. In addition, she is one of the founders of the Week of Topical Plays festival and the Theater of the Internally Displaced project, as well as a curator of the Doncult and GOGOLFEST festivals.