Pralnia – “Laundry Theater”

On Saturday November 3, 2018 members of UANM were treated to the electrifying, high energy 90 minute non stop full on performance of cabaret theater Pralnia (“laundry”), which was originally launched in June 2015, the day after the troupe’ s five members graduated from the Puppetry Department at Kyiv’s National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television. “We had a vision of an ideal theater/laboratory. We understood that we wanted to work in a theater that didn’t exist, so we decided to make one ourselves,” says Pralnia’s Marusia Ionova. The show they made, and continue to evolve with every performance, truly represents their mission which is “We act and we are ourselves. We ask questions to wash souls, to clean hearts, to freshen minds.” And they certainly did- Thank you, Pralnia, and return to New Mexico soon!

Teatr Pralnia was sponsored by Center Stage, a public diplomacy initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.