In the early days of the Ukraine war, 40 people and seven cats lived there to stay safe, and actors rehearsed among them for 'The Book of Sirens'. The theatre is in a basement beneath a four-storey building.Ī bomb shelter in World War Two, it is now an 'art shelter,' Borovenskiy says.

It's very therapeutic to speak in the form of art about military things.' Theatre allowed people to experience trauma in 'a non-traumatic way,' added Borovenskiy, whose troupe performs in English. We will not have this trauma for generations,' he told Reuters. 'If we talk about the war through the means of art, this wound will be able to heal much faster. It is the latest instalment of theatre founder and Artistic Director Alex Borovenskiy's creative mission to help heal the scars of conflict and tell the world there is more to Ukraine than survival. 21, three days before the first anniversary of Russia's invasion. The ProEnglish Theatre's next performance of 'The Book of Sirens' is on Feb.

KYIV, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The bombs fall and the sirens blare but, in a Kyiv basement, rehearsals for the show - about a German town relentlessly attacked during World War Two - go on.

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