Rehearsed reading: “Take the rubbish out, Sasha!”

Rehearsed reading: “Take the rubbish out, Sasha!”

Sasha, a colonel in the Ukrainian army, who has died of a heart failure, sees his widow Katia and his step-daughter Oksana prepare his funeral feast. A year later, the country will be engulfed in the events that can make the dead rise. Sasha is ready to be resurrected, but his family is not. They are reluctant to bury him again.

Kiev-based playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit is against the war. In her play ‘Sasha, Take the Rubbish Out,’ she gives voice to those who are never asked for their opinion in real life; to those whose lot is to be widowed and who have no need for deadly heroic acts.

Stage Director: Konstantin Kamensky
Actors: Oleg Sidorchik, Irina Selezneva-Horner, Alexandra Mikhailova
Music: Iryna Muha

The play will be read in Russian with English subtitles. Translated by Sasha Dugdale.