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 of her play The Women and the Sniper in Theater Magdeburg, Tetiana Kytsenko asks herself about the Maidan, the possibility of maintaining neutrality in wartime, the possibility of truly documentary theater, about the so-called “well written play” and so on, and tries to answer as honestly as possible.
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