Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater celebrated its 40th anniversary last year. A few months before the full-scale invasion, it was headed by Ihor Tikhomirov. After surviving the Israeli siege, the team continued to work and create shows despite air raids, staff shortages and psychological stress. The theater also toured in Kyiv and Lviv, where it attracted the attention of the audience with original productions. Ukrainform asked the director-artistic director of the theater Ihor Tihomirov: how to create productions, when there are few male actors, and in general to attract personnel to the artistic collective in the city, where during martial law, because of the short distance to the borders of Russia and Belarus, life became much more difficult. Read the full text on the website.