“What is strength? Strength is strength. Strength is the most important thing. There are those who come and take. Like them. And there are those who are scared shitless. Like me. I go to the bathroom. I saw they do that in movies when the heroine feels really bad and wants to wash it all away. But there’s no water.” There is no bathroom. There is no home. There is no family.

PLUR – the creed of rave culture, an acronym for the words “Peace, Love, Unity, Respect.” Come to our theatrical rave party, a dream about the need for all these values. A dream about Ukrainian folk healers, molfars, customs, and culture – about everything that the Leningrad cannibal wants to devour. Rave is not a time for mourning, it is a time for rebuilding what the orcs want to
destroy. Cultures and identities.

There once was a man, there once was a family in Stanytsia Luhanska.

A Russian mother who believes in UFOs, chupacabras, and the Bermuda Triangle, and a Ukrainian father, a veteran of the Vietnam War, who reads “The World of Crime.” A grandfather who is an anti-Semite but who is also hiding his Jewish roots and trying to cure himself himself with urine therapy, and grandmother Luba, a local folk healer who lost her twin sister Luda in the war. And Lena, who in 2000 is in the 9th grade and wants to escape from the hicksville, where she lives with her family.

“I hate this town.
The Lugansk locomotive factory.
Let this city be consumed by dragon fire.
Let its streets be infested with hedgehogs.
I won’t stay in this shithole.
I’ll be an artist. And all of you can just die here!
I’ll play in Spielberg’s movie! Michałkow’s at least.
I’ll go to Cannes. From the big screen I’ll show Lugansk: Fuck you!
You backwater village! Shithole! FUCK you!”

In the hood they call her a Jewess and a lesbian. She starts a hunger strike and demands ear surgery. She wants to apply to a university in Moscow but gets accepted to Lugansk. There, she participates in the Orange Revolution, and for a few hryvnia, she sides with Yanukovych because “Yanukovych is still one of us, he knows the needs of the region.” It is then that her banner gets peed on by a kitten
that will die on it later on. She becomes the new face of the opposition by accident – a bit like General Della Rovere (a character from an Italian-French movie about a collaborator who becomes the hero of the resistance movement in the Fascist Italy). In 2014, Russia attacks her family home, and in 2022 Lena returns to Stanytsia Luhanska to visit her ancestors’ graves and she finally understands what she has lost.

The project “A Kitty Peed On My Banner” is a new form of tłoka – mutual aid and communal assistance, where Polish and Ukrainian artists join forces. Once upon a time, people in Ukraine gathered for tłoka during harvest or deforestation – today, for rebuilding liberated villages. Tłoka used to begin with refreshments, often accompanied by music and dances and ended with a hearty meal and drinks. We invite you to our rave-like tłoka, to the red carpet rolled out in the rebuilt, free
Lugansk. “Because Lugansk is as beautiful as Cannes.”

Everyone will drink champagne and live happily ever after.

“A Kitty called Mruczka will pee on the carpet, and Cossacks – beautiful, with naked torsos, Dothraki-like, will be on TV”.