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«Chasing Two Hares» is a comedy play by Ukrainian playwright Mykhailo Starytskyi. It was written in 1883 in Ukrainian.

It tells the story of a barber Svyryd Holokhvistyi, who tries to get rich by marrying a wealthy bourgeois woman Pronya Sirko, and at the same time courts a poor beautiful girl Galia.

The play raises the problem of social inequality, ridiculing the life of Ukrainian Russified bourgeoisie in Kyiv.