CMU School of Drama


Thursday, March 24, 2022

How Ukrainian playwrights are responding to the theater of war

DC Metro Theater Arts: Yelena Astasyeva’s namesake character Yelena in her new play A Dictionary of Emotions in War Time muses that “it’s like finding myself in a film about war, it’s a nightmare. You go to bed, and you fear your home will be bombed that night. There’s nowhere to buy food or medicine. And when you write about all of this, your Russian friends answer that it’s fake news. What do you think, how do I feel?”

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