Voices from Chernobyl

«What lingers most in my memory of Chernobyl is life afterwards: the possessions without owners, the landscapes without people. The roads going nowhere, the cables leading nowhere. You find yourself wondering just what this is: the past or the future. It sometimes felt to me as if I was recording the future».

Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich returned to the place where she grew up, to give voice to the people who lived through the events at a stone's throw from the nuclear reactor. Her book consists of a series of monologues and is a record of the oral history of the people of Belarus, those who were scarred by the event - knowingly or unknowingly. Men, women, soldiers, elderly, children, Alexievich's narrators are those who worked in the months after the accident in the area, those who were forced to leave their homes, their villages, their land, and those who returned to live again in the Forbidden Zone.

Cypriot director Maria Kyriakou adapts Alexievich's book for the stage and puts together a performance about love and deep faith. Faith in big ideas, faith in one’s country but also love for the land and nature, love for a specific way of life and what it means to abandon it. Voices from Chernobyl is a performance about human existence, about the sense of belonging and about what it means to search for meaning in a world that gives you none.

Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Director: Maria Kyriakou
Translation - Dramaturgy: Maria Kyriakou
Stage design: Elena Kotasvili
Costumes: Eleni Ioannou
Music Composition and Sound Design: Nama Dama
Movement: Fotis Nikolaou
Lighting Design: Vasilis Petinaris
Assistant Director: Maria Pishili
Visual Communication: Demetris Soteriou
Photographs: Demetris Loutsios
Special Construcitons: Stefanos Nearchou
Production Manager: Maria Philippou

Performers: Stavros Louras, Popi Avraam, Penny Finiri, Michalis Papettas

Performances:
25 & 26 March 2025*, Rialto Theatre, Limassol
April 11, 12, 13, 15*, 16, 22*, 23, 28, 29, 30, Theatro Dentro, Nicosia
(*with English and Russian surtitles)

Performances start at 8:30 pm

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Reduced: € 17
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Main Sponsor
Ministry of Culture, Department of Contemporary Culture

Sponsors
Royal Crown Insurance
Polakis Sarris & Co LLC
K.P. Kyriakou Bookshop

Communication Sponsors
CyBC
Rock FM

Production: À Vendre Theatre Group