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Solo show “An Eye for an Eye”

Pavlo Osikov holding up a photo of a destroyed building next to a mannequin draped in machine-gun belts

We had never had silence like this at Bombik. Actor Pavlo Osikov outdid himself, and when the show ended it took the audience several seconds to come back to themselves. It was incredible.

Format
solo show about the war, our sixth event
On stage
Pavlo Osikov, AVE one-man theatre
Raised for the army
UAH 2,410
Venue
bomb shelter in the Pokrovskyi district of Kryvyi Rih
Entry
free, donations collected

What the play is about

“An Eye for an Eye” is a monologue. The actor speaks to an imagined occupier and asks him “Why?”. He tells the stories of Ukrainians who lived through occupation and lost people close to them, and he shows photographs of destroyed homes. It is the third part of the identity monologues from the AVE one-man theatre and the first time Pavlo has taken on the war, krivbass.city reports. The first part, “And Where Am I?”, had already played at Bombik.

How people reacted

Some came up to Pavlo and asked for a hug. Some stayed where they were, taking it in. Some were wiping away tears. It’s a play that makes you stop and think about what life is during a war.

The crew from the T-fishing channel was at Bombik that night too. In their video “We Make Theatre Out of Bomb Shelters” (in Ukrainian) the founders talk about how it all started.

Thanks and donations

Thanks to Pavlo Osikov for the show, to our colleague Svitlana Ostapchuk for the fragrant tea and for making the place cosy, to Oleksandr Tovstukha for logistics and technical help and, of course, to the audience, who sat through all of it and then helped the army too.

We hit another record: UAH 2,410, all of it for the army’s needs.

Photos: Andrii Bohun.

Photos from the night

Portrait of Pavlo Osikov in front of the mural of an eye in the colours of the Ukrainian flag The actor leaning over a table with a lamp in the half-dark, with the audience in the foreground The actor sitting at a table with a yellow cloth and a desk lamp Audience on green chairs watching the play closely The actor with a backpack on, lost in thought beside a dark coat on a hanger The actor resting his head on his hands at a table with a candle The actor at the table, talking to someone unseen in the lamplight The actor holding a mannequin in a white T-shirt The actor lying under the table in red light, a scene from the play Props on the table: a candle, matches, a spray bottle, a phone and a paper plane The actor beside a mannequin in a blood-stained T-shirt Talking with the audience after the show, with the Ukrainian flag behind them A woman in a dark jacket speaking to the audience with feeling, the actor beside her Big group photo of the audience and performers in the shelter