Lena Kudajewa, Polina Położencewa, Oksana Sawczenko

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The volume brings together three plays selected in 2022 through the Ukrainian Institute’s programme transmission.UA: drama on the move, which promotes contemporary Ukrainian playwriting across Europe.

“Ukrainian literature, including drama, will never be the same again. The experience of a prolonged war—with all its shifting phases—has undoubtedly shaped the craft of Ukrainian playwrights. They have learned to recognize and neutralize human trauma, and have acquired the rare ability to separate the wheat from the chaff: to distinguish what truly matters from what is trivial or detached from reality. They have restored a sense of proportion. Combined with great universal themes, this will undoubtedly give rise to powerful dramatic literature.”
—Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun, from the Introduction