Tag: Ukraine

How to break bread in no man’s land

A microcosmic reflection on the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine, ‘Grey Bees’ is Beckettian in its existential crises, dark humour and give and take between the two characters, Serhiich (Viktor Zhdanov) and Pashka (Vladimir Yamnenko). They’ve known each other for decades and are utterly indifferent to one another.

For those who died as cattle

IT TAKES IMMENSE skill and maturity to know that the telling of a story filled with detail and drama, with interstices of horror and loss and replete with almost 60-year-old ghosts is done not with gimmicks and tricks, with big noise and flashing lights, but with an old […]

Ode to a broken forest

IT TAKES IMMENSE skill and maturity to know that the telling of a story filled with detail and drama, with interstices of horror and loss and replete with almost 60-year-old ghosts is done not with gimmicks and tricks, with big noise and flashing lights, but with an old […]