Russian-speaking actors of the British professional theater "Chameleon"  paid tribute to the participants of the Great Patriotic War. Irina Karacheva, Vladislava Lemeshevskaya, Irina Granovskaya and Zhenya Leverett read the letters collected by the project “Letters of Victory” on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Theater producer Vladislav Lemeshevskaya said that the idea of ​​reading letters from the front arose in the context of ongoing quarantine in the UK, as a result of which all offline events on Victory Day were postponed. By this important date, Vladislav wanted to do something in the theater in an online format: “There were ideas to read military prose, poetry, sing songs. But when I opened the archive of letters, and there are a lot of them on the pismapobedy.ru website, I realized that I wanted to breathe life into the letters of real people who went through the war. There is such an undisguised, not artistic truth of life - it’s hard to imagine something stronger than this. 

Four actresses read the lines written by soldiers from training and acting units. Soldier triangles were addressed to mothers, fathers and loved ones to Moscow, the village of Tyarlevo, Leningrad Region, Vladivostok, Irkutsk Region. “All letters are incredibly touching. While I myself selected the letters, I could not hold back my tears: there was so much love, hope and strength in each of them. The actors read these letters with pleasure, it is clear that this topic is very important for them, ”says the theater producer.

The project was implemented in collaboration with the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in London.

Theater "Chameleon" was founded in 2015 with the goal of forming a permanent theater space in Russian in London. He bases his work on the Russian theater tradition. Working with the best London professional actors, directors and artists from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic countries and Central Asia, he creates productions that are interesting both to the Russian-speaking public and to all lovers of Russian theater in the UK. The theater’s repertoire includes such performances as “Love in the Case” based on the stories of A.P. Chekhov, “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “Dog Heart” by Bulgakov and “Doll's House” by Ibsen. In 2018, the Xameleon Theater entered the top three best Russian theaters outside of Russia in the nomination “The Best Russian Theater Abroad” of the “Theatrical Star” award.The founder of the theater and producer Vlada Lemeshevskaya considers one of the tasks of the collective to enrich the local culture with the achievements of Russian art.