The theatre of war scripted straight from the streets of Kyiv
The Ukrainian dramatist Natalia Vorozhbit is bringing the words of the protestors in Kyiv to the Royal Court in a new play
Not many writers in the midst of researching a play find themselves building
barricades and prising cobblestones from the streets to be hurled at the
police. But then the Ukrainian dramatist Natalia Vorozhbit spent three
months in Maidan (Independence Square in Kyiv, where protestors fought and
died earlier this year) to write a play. She was there to protest too. “I
don’t separate the two,” says Vorozhbit plainly. When she and the director
Andrei Mai were compiling material for the verbatim work, objectivity was
not the objective.
“Yes, we only took interviews from one side,” she admits, “but we didn’t