The Black Council

The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.

Drama History

Aleksey Petrenko

(Bogdan Khmelnitsky)

Bohdan Stupka

(Briukhovetsky)

Oleksandr Bondarenko

(Hetman Somko)

Serhii Romaniuk

(Shram)

Bohdan Beniuk

(Cherevan)

Ruslana Pysanka

(Cherevan's wife)

Radmila Shegoleva

(Lesya)

Ksenia Kovaliova

(Polish princess)

Stepan Oleksenko

(Gvintovka)

Mykola Boklan

(Kirilo Tur)

Nikolay Oleynik

Iryna Melnyk

Anatoli Mokrenko

Konstantin Shaforenko

(Shramenko)

Vladimir Volkov

(boyar)

Viktor Polishchuk

Vitali Rosstalnoy

(Pugach)