The play “Mariupol”

After successful script-in-hand performances at The Old Fire Station, Oxford, MARIUPOL comes to The Cockpit as a full production for the first time.

Written by Katia Haddad, MARIUPOL is based on her treasured memories of the city and accounts of the survivors of the siege. The play is directed by Olivier-award winning writer and director John Retallack.

Summer 1992. Mariupol. Galina, a student from Moscow, meets Steve, a charismatic Navy Officer. 30 years later, she comes back looking for him in a bunker under the bombed Azovstal. Even on the opposite sides of the war, their lives are connected.

Set over three fateful encounters in 1992, 2002, and 2022, MARIUPOL is a modern drama, whose characters are faced with intense moral dilemmas.

Katia Haddad is a writer and playwright. MARIUPOL is the author’s personal response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

John Retallack is an Olivier-award winning writer and theatre director with a career spanning over forty years.

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