Ivan Franko Drama Theater
Historic playhouse from 1898, built over a filled-in lake whose spring still flows under the stage.
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This guide to the Ivan Franko Drama Theater in Kyiv starts beneath the stage, with a lake on a medical professor's estate that was filled in to make room for a new square in the eighteen-nineties. It follows the water, the actors who treat it as their own, and the neighbours who came looking for it when the taps ran dry. Best heard from the square, facing the facade.
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