For the third year, the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is participating in the Ukrainian Play Reading Project. On Saturday, February 24 they will host a live reading of “Bad Roads” by Natal’ya Vorozhbit, in the O’Connell Theatre in NIU’s Stevens Building from noon to 2:30 p.m.
There is no admission fee, though donations will be accepted to globalgiving.org to benefit Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
A livestream of the event will be available at: http://tinyurl.com/5n6mvxbr
According to Playwrights Canada Press:
In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging.A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns her lover killed in action.Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s play Bad Roads is a heartbreaking, powerful and bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime. It was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, in November 2017, in a production directed by Vicky Featherstone. It was developed by the Royal Court International Department, and translated by Sasha Dugdale.
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