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Russian authorities rebuilt Mariupol Drama Theatre to legitimize control, with seating for nearly 500, after the 2022 airstrike that killed up to 600 civilians.
- State reports say the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater, Mariupol, has been rebuilt and modernized, with nearly 500 capacity, and will reopen on Dec. 25, Russian-appointed officials say.
- Investigations and rights groups say, `An airstrike tore through the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater, Mariupol, on March 16, 2022,` with casualty estimates from Human Rights Watch at at least 15; AP near 600, suggesting a possible war crime.
- The Mariupol Drama troupe, now in western Ukraine, has relocated and continues performing, but Ihor Kytrysh called the theatre's reopening a desecration, saying it should be replaced with a monument.
- Igor Solonin, theatre's Russian-appointed cultural director, said a Dec. 25 gala will thank architects and engineers from St. Petersburg while hundreds of construction workers preserved the historic facade.
- Officials bill the restoration as the theatre's rebirth and part of Mariupol's wider restoration, while survivors and displaced residents recall loss and fleeing about 65 kilometres west to Berdyansk.
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In March 2022 the Kremlin forces bombed it despite a large inscription indicating that there were children's refugees. The occupants now wanted to re-inaugurate it as a sign of normalization, but it will be discussed again in the spring.
The bombing of the theater in Mariupol, Ukraine, sparked outrage around the world. Now Russia has rebuilt it – to play “Soviet classics.” – Dancing on
The Mariupol Drama Theater, which was bombed in 2022 with hundreds of civilians in its basement, will reopen at the end of the month. While the Russian occupying authorities are trying to sell the theater’s restoration as a sign of renewal, the theater’s former actors feel like they are “dancing on bones.” The theater will reopen with a Russian fairy tale called The Red Flower. A Mariupol photographer, Yevgeny Sosnovsky, said the theater’s recon…
Russia is about to start staging plays at the Mariupol theatre it bombed
Russian state media reported that the theatre is slated to officially reopen on Dec. 25, and that plays will start being staged there at some point in the new year. Russian occupation authorities have renamed it the Mariupol Republican Order of the Badge of Honour Russian Drama Theatre, and ...
The Mariupol drama theatre was destroyed in a deadly bombing. It's about to start staging plays again
Russian state media reported that the theatre is slated to officially reopen on Dec. 25, and that plays will start being staged there at some point in the new year. Russian occupation authorities have renamed it the Mariupol Republican Order of the Badge of Honour Russian Drama Theatre, and on its website write that the theatre is being reborn, like the entire city of Mariupol.
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