The multi-art hub Cherry Arts located in Ithaca, New York, has scheduled three evenings of contemporary Ukrainian theatre readings. These performances were organised as a part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings movement, created by the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD).
The readings take place from September 30 to October 9 with an opening reception on September 30. The project program includes:
• Maidan Inferno by Neda Nejdana, directed by David Studwell. Maidan Inferno is a full-length epic story about the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution in 2014.
• After Donbas is two one-act plays about the Donbas invasion and its aftermath. The plays are Take the Trash Out Sasha by Natalya Vorozhbyt, directed by Susannah Berryman, and Skin Deep by Natalia Blok, directed by Rebecca Bradshaw.
• Dispatches from the Front: writings since the February 24 Russian invasion. It includes:
A Dictionary of Emotions in Wartime by Olena Astasieva
Survivors’ Syndrome by Andrii Bondarenko
Planting an Apple Tree by Iryna Harets
How to Talk To The Dead by Anastasiia Kosodii
A Topol-M Missile Fired at a Cat Named Brooch by Lena Liagushonkova
The play by Lena Liagushonkova in English, Slovak and German translations can be accessed at https://ukrdrama.ui.org.ua/en/author/lena-lagushonkova.
More information you can find at https://www.thecherry.org/voices-of-ukraine/