First of a series of Ukrainian plays to be read next Monday 2 May, 7.30pm GMT by Stepping Out Theatre
Natalya Vorozhbit’s searingly powerful play Bad Roads about the war in the Donbas will be read live on Zoom on Monday 2 May, 7.30pm GMT. Written five years ago, the play is particularly poignant in the current climate and will be a dramatic experience, followed by a discussion with some Ukrainian playwrights in the audience. Afterwards, they will join the panel to say a few words and to have an online discussion with our audience. Some of these writers are ones whose work we will be performing in future. Stepping Out Theatre Company, the UK’s leading mental health theatre company, will be reading this play in the first of a series of events, online, staged and full productions of works by Ukrainian playwrights. Stepping Out Theatre are working closely with the 24 writers of the Playwrights Theatre of Kyiv, some of whom are now serving in the Territorial Defence forces of Ukraine; supporting art and culture in Ukraine is a vital strand in supporting their independence as a country