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Topical Play Week

theater festival in Kyiv

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ25432574 ↗
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The Topical Play Week (Ukrainian: Тиждень актуальної п'єси) is an educational drama festival held annually in Kyiv, Ukraine. The festival consists of readings of poetic and dramatic texts submitted by international playwrights in Ukrainian. Founded in 2011 by Marysia Nikitiuk, Andrew May, and Natalia Vorozhbit, the festival seeks to allow new playwrights to share their work with directors and spectators. The festival also gives out the Readers' Award for exceptional texts.

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This entry incorporates text from “Topical Play Week” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.