Brasenose College, Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre
Women and War in Ukrainian New Drama
Thursday 1 December, 7:30pm
All Welcome
Join us for a reading (in English) of excerpts from two new documentary plays by leading Ukrainian playwrights Anastasiia Kosodii and Kateryna Penkova. Commissioned by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre and Birkbeck’s Institute for Gender and Sexuality, these texts exemplify the remarkable culture of defiance and resistance in Ukrainian political playwriting and demonstrate how theatre-makers are using their craft to speak out against the atrocities of Russia’s ongoing war.
Readings will be followed by a discussion with the playwrights together with Ukrainian theatre specialist Molly Flynn (Birkbeck) and moderated by cultural historian of Ukraine Zbigniew Wojnowski (Oxford).
The event is free, but if you are in a position to do so financially, please consider donating to Come Back Alive or Razom for Ukraine.
