Inside a theatre in Ukraine providing refuge to families fleeing war

Centre-stage, a little girl is curled up on a makeshift bed made out of theatre props, having travelled hundreds of miles across Ukraine to flee a war that is worsening by the minute.

In the stalls, chairs have been cleared to make way for sleeping refugees. More rest in the circle and on the balcony.

This month, the Les Kurbas theatre – one of the best-loved and most avant-garde playhouses in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv – was supposed to be running a busy winter schedule.