Four women, named after musical instruments, talk about a calm, stable life in a sanatorium. There is everything they need here but just boring. To entertain themselves the heroines talk about their life. Each woman has a different story, but all four have something in common – that brought th...
Modern humans live in such a polluted information space that they lose sensitivity to the most terrible things. Terrorism, infant mortality, gender inequality, environmental pollution, war – all this, mixed with information slop, seems as insignificant as serials, advertising, chatter, or ente...
Tetiana Kytsenko, playwright, screenwriter and journalist, winner of the Free Theatre Grand Prix (London–Minsk, 2016), reflects on the nature of theater and modern Ukrainian drama. Her “From Beginning to End the Author Has to Change” is a largely autobiographical essay. After the first performance o...
A resident of one of the settlements in Brovary district, Alevtina, tells the former chairman, Fedorovich, about her sorrow. While she was on duty at a hospital in Kyiv, Russian forces entered her village, took her husband and son, and now the woman doesn’t even know where they are and what ha...
By February 24, 2022, the war in Ukraine has been going on for 8 years. This text is dedicated to its very beginning – the Maidan 2014 in Kyiv and to the subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine. The country was divided into two zones – war and peace. The Women and the Sniper is about...