Tevye Tevel

And again the Milky Way will flash above the stage with billions of stars. Tevye will appear again with his cart and a lifelong conversation with God will begin about the eternal categories of faith and hope, the search for the perfection of the world and the meaning of Being…

In the history of every theater there are landmark performances, against which future generations compare their artistic aspirations and preferences. For the Frankivtsi, one of such performances for many years was the performance "Tevye-Tevel" based on the works of Sholom Aleichem, a play by Grigory Gorin.

...Tevye, the Anatov milkman, pulls his cart with milk, pondering such problems familiar to every ordinary person: how to bring order to a large family, how to make five daughters marry decent people, how to earn more money on which existence depends. The hero meets different people on his way, their destinies develop differently. A meeting with a Kyiv student, Perchyk, whom Tevye brings to his family, ends with the departure of his daughter, Godl, to distant Siberia, where her student husband has been exiled. The eldest daughter, Tzeitl, after an unsuccessful matchmaking for the butcher Leyzer, marries the poor but kind-hearted tailor Motl. Hava, Tevye's most beloved daughter, unites her fate with a Russian boy, Fedor. And the father again turns to his only advisor - God, waiting for hope for the best. Hopes are shattered one after another, but Tevye, a great dreamer from Anativka, even after the death of his wife, holding his little granddaughter Golda in his arms, tells her about the regularity and logic of the circle of life. The idea of ​​the desired and the unattainable runs through all the events of the play, which is resolved in the tragicomic genre, where laughter resounds through tears, where there is a place for humor and wit. And, of course, colorful music, without which life is also indispensable...