Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution - Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha; A Time Traveller's Guide to Donbas; Pilates Time; Bomb; House of Ghosts. Why. We. Fled. Donbas; I Don't Remember the Name; The Mother by Gorky; Tolyk the Diaryman

Ukraine's remarkable aptitude for resilience and grassroots activism, as witnessed since February 2022, is closely connected to a process that began with the Euromaidan Revolution in 2013-14, when over two million Ukrainians took to the streets in defense of democracy and human rights. In the months directly following the Revolution, Russia illegally occupied Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, and began funneling both arms and troops into the eastern region of Donbas to fuel a conflict between the Ukrainian army and a small group of radical separatists. Since that time, Ukrainians have been working diligently to build the society in which they have wanted to live, all while fighting Russia and its proxies in Europe's forgotten war.

Ukrainian New Drama After the Euromaidan Revolution brings together key works from the country's impressively generative post-Revolutionary period, many of them published here in English for the first time. As well as established voices from the E uropean theatre repertoire such as Natalka Vorozhbyt and Maksym Kurochkin, this collection also features iconic plays from Ukraine's post-Maidan generation of playwrights Natalka Blok, Andrii Bondarenko, Anastsiia Kosodii, Lena Lagushonkova, Olha Matsiupa, and Kateryna Penkova. Considered together, these plays reflect the diversity of voices in Ukraine as a country seeking to comprehend both the personal and political consequences of the Revolution, the war, and all that has come since.

A key element to the remarkable culture of defiance and resistance that Ukrainians created in these years has been new approaches to arts activism, particularly in the performing arts. In the eight years between Euromaidan and the full-scale invasion, Ukraine witnessed an incredible boom in socially engaged performance practice. Playwriting in particular has become an essential genre through which artists have sought to bear witness to the repercussions of the war and to create spaces for th e reclaiming of historical and cultural narratives; Ukrainian New Drama After the Euromaidan Revolution captures this spirit and published this necessary and vital work in English for the very first time.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction by Molly Flynn

Foreword by Natalka Vorozhbyt

Bios

Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha by Natalka Vorozhbyt

A Time Traveller's Guide to Donbasby Anastasiia Kosodii

Pilates Time by Olha Matsiupa

Bomb by Natalka Blok

House of Ghosts. Why. We. Fled. Donbas by Andrii Bondarenko

I Don't Remember the Name by Kateryna Penkova

The Mother by Gorky by Lena Lagushonkova

Tolyk the Dairyman by Maksym Kurochkin

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Flynn's collection is ... a necessary volume, the plays ripe for performance by student and professional groups in the English-speaking world. Her astute selection of texts captures the energy of Ukrainian theatrical activism and reminds us of the difficulties of this first phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war which now, following the high-profile invasion in February, is sometimes forgotten. Modern Language Review