HE WHO OPENS THE DOOR

Orignal title: ТОЙ, ЩО ВІДЧИНЯЄ ДВЕРІ, 1998Translator: John Farndon, English

Locked up in a morgue and terrorized by phone calls, two women are too radically interpreting their situation – from the afterlife to nuclear war, from a coup to the terrorist attack – reacting to each option lightly and with a touch of humour. The worst that happens to them is freedom...

There are three versions of the play. The latest one was written in 2021. Staged over 50 times in theatres and higher education institutions of Kyiv, Odesa, Rivne, Bila Tserkva, Kharkiv, Feodosia, Dnipro, Ternopil, Uzhgorod and other places in Ukraine, as well as Belarus, Poland, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Turkey and Australia. Stage readings in Sweden, Georgia, France and USA.
The earlier versions have been published in Polish, Serbian, Georgian, Turkish and English.

Written in: 1998-2021.

Publication: AnthologyAgiotage”. Compiled by: Julia Skybytska. Printed by:Summit-knyga”, K.: 2021.

Black comedy for the national theatre of tragedy, 2 Acts, 2 F
22 pages / 6609 words

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