From Associated Press.

Director Olha Semioshkina said her play draws parallel between actors with combat past and the character they play on stage. The production was an adaptation of Eneida by Ivan Kotliarevskyi — itself a Ukrainian reimagining of Aeneid. The actors — men and women in their 20s to their 60s — included Ukrainian veterans who returned from the front with amputations, burns and sight loss. The result premiered at National Academic Molodyy Theatre, becoming, according to Semioshkina, the first amateur troupe to enter the repertoire of a professional drama theater in Ukraine.

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