UNTITLED UKRAINE PROJECT is a stage adaptation of selected short stories from LUCKY BREAKS written by Yevgenia Belorusets reimagined by playwright Sara Farrington, directed by Jaclyn Biskup, and devised and performed by our ensemble of five female actors. Each story is bleakly comic, beginning and ending abruptly, depicting the haunting effects of the 2014 Russian invasion on the lives of civilian women. A woman who runs a flower shop vanishes suddenly and no one asks questions. In another, a woman takes her war induced rage out on her broken umbrella. In another scene, a woman on a crowded street suddenly decides she can no longer walk and renders herself forever a “living monument.” The absurdist tone and language of each brief story is transformed into a physical score, bending reality to capture the rootless tortured experience of female victims of war and occupation.
UNTITLED UKRAINE PROJECT is a stage adaptation of selected short stories from LUCKY BREAKS written by Yevgenia Belorusets reimagined by playwright Sara Farrington, directed by Jaclyn Biskup, and devised and performed by our ensemble of five female actors. Each story is bleakly comic, beginning and ending abruptly, depicting the haunting effects of the 2014 Russian invasion on the lives of civilian women. A woman who runs a flower shop vanishes suddenly and no one asks questions. In another, a woman takes her war induced rage out on her broken umbrella. In another scene, a woman on a crowded street suddenly decides she can no longer walk and renders herself forever a “living monument.” The absurdist tone and language of each brief story is transformed into a physical score, bending reality to capture the rootless tortured experience of female victims of war and occupation.