Famous director and founder of the Arabesque Theater Svitlana Oleshko dies

Yesterday, on December 19, Svitlana Oleshko, a well-known Kharkiv director, founder and director of the Arabesque Theater, died. This was reported by her ex-husband Serhiy Zhadan, UNN reports.

"Yesterday Svitlana Oleshko, the founder and director of the Arabesque Theater, passed away. We lived together from 1995 to 2007. RIP..." - Zhadan said.

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According to the Ministry of Culture, Svitlana Oleshko is an iconic figure in Ukrainian theater. Among the director's most famous productions are Red Elvis (2010), Radio Chanson: Eight Stories about Yura Zoifer (2007) based on texts by Serhiy Zhadan, the documentary Chornobyl™ (2006), created in collaboration with artists from Ukraine, Poland and Belarus, and others.

Svitlana also initiated the creation of the Theater Institute in Kharkiv. 

The Arabesque Theater, which began as a student experimental project, became famous for reading works by poets of the Executed Renaissance. Under the artist's leadership, the theater also implemented the project "Theater Therapy as a Method of Social Rehabilitation," where professional directors worked with convicts in Kharkiv and Lviv penal colonies.

Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, Svitlana Oleshko has been living in Warsaw and working at the Polish Shifman Theater. In March of this year, she premiered her play Kharkiv, Kharkiv, about the Berezil Theater and its founder Les Kurbas. 

Svitlana Oleshko has left a significant mark on Ukrainian culture, and her work and social activities will forever remain an example of her dedication to art and people.

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The funeral will take place on Monday, December 23 at 12.00 in Warsaw at ul. Powązkowska 14 (kapliza zakładu pogrzebowego Pruszyńskiego).