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A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War: 20 Short Works by Ukrainian Playwrights by John Freedman
whatsheasaid's review
5.0
I read a lot of plays and, generally speaking, I don't include them here on Goodreads. But, in the case of reading this full collection, I make an exception as the work contained here is of the utmost importance on the global stage at this perilous moment.
Maksym Kurochkin, renowned Ukrainian playwright and screenwriter, was about to celebrate the soon-to-open Theatre of Playwrights in Kyiv, where he is a co-founder and artistic director, when the Russian invasion began. Instead of preparing for opening night, he joined the Territorial Defense Force to defend his country. John Freedman, a lauded author and translator who I've had the pleasure of working with on several occasions reached out to Kurochkin about staging a Worldwide Play Reading to support Ukraine, an endeavor he had been approached to help curate by playwright William Wong.
The result, after many understandable delays was an international series of public readings, with the flagship being by the one in June of 2022, in Kyiv, at the future home the Theatre of Playwrights. Here in the states, I had the honor of participating in one hosted by Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore.
These readings have culminated in this collection of 20 short plays and monologues, each written as bombs exploded outside their authors' windows. Each showing different aspects of the brutal, hellish life in Ukraine today, told by artists currently living in and fighting for it. Each an important work that needs as large of an audience as possible.
Whoever you are, dear reader, I hope you'll buy a copy of this collection and give yourself a very personal, intimate insight into life in Ukraine today.
https://www.laertesbooks.org/purchase/a-dictionary-of-emotions-in-a-time-of-war-20-short-works-by-ukrainian-playwrights
Maksym Kurochkin, renowned Ukrainian playwright and screenwriter, was about to celebrate the soon-to-open Theatre of Playwrights in Kyiv, where he is a co-founder and artistic director, when the Russian invasion began. Instead of preparing for opening night, he joined the Territorial Defense Force to defend his country. John Freedman, a lauded author and translator who I've had the pleasure of working with on several occasions reached out to Kurochkin about staging a Worldwide Play Reading to support Ukraine, an endeavor he had been approached to help curate by playwright William Wong.
The result, after many understandable delays was an international series of public readings, with the flagship being by the one in June of 2022, in Kyiv, at the future home the Theatre of Playwrights. Here in the states, I had the honor of participating in one hosted by Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore.
These readings have culminated in this collection of 20 short plays and monologues, each written as bombs exploded outside their authors' windows. Each showing different aspects of the brutal, hellish life in Ukraine today, told by artists currently living in and fighting for it. Each an important work that needs as large of an audience as possible.
Whoever you are, dear reader, I hope you'll buy a copy of this collection and give yourself a very personal, intimate insight into life in Ukraine today.
https://www.laertesbooks.org/purchase/a-dictionary-of-emotions-in-a-time-of-war-20-short-works-by-ukrainian-playwrights