The play He Who Opens The Door directed by Becky Hope-Palmer is written as a war drama in Samuel Beckett’s style of existentialism. It is set in modern-day Ukraine, where two women wake up to find themselves trapped in a morgue. Are they actually dead and held in limbo? The phone is dead, except for the occasional incoming calls from a stranger. Stuck in the building (a former Cold War nuclear shelter) two women – Vera and Vika – are scared. Could their escape depend on playing for the right side – pro-European or pro-Russian? What if there is a nuclear war or pandemic outside?
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