Two Ukrainian Plays

As the title says, just a few months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Finborough has programmed a double-bill of work by Ukrainian playwrights. Most obscure is Neda Nezhdana: her monologue ‘Pussycat in Memory of Darkness’ is the first performance of her work outside her some country, and follows a woman trying to sell her kittens in the wartorn Donbas of 2014. Ukraine’s most famous living playwright is Natal’ya Vorozhbit, whose play ‘Bad Roads’ played at the Royal Court a few years back. This double-bill includes the English premiere of ‘Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha’, a surreal play in which the dead are being recruited to Ukraine’s war effort.