Tuesday, January 14, 2025
‘If you hear the siren, go to the shelter’: the wrenching play about the bombing of a theatre in Ukraine
Theatre | The Guardian: The play opens with the usual pre-show request for audiences to switch off their mobile phones before the curtain rises, but along with this come warnings – and instructions for how the audience should evacuate the auditorium in the event of an air raid.
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Hearing all the horror stories about what has been going on in Ukraine and the constant terror these people have faced for so long is awful. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a situation like that.
I love the idea that Oleksandr Gavrosh came up with. I think telling the stories of these people is really important. Giving context to their lives, what life was like before the invasion, the constant fear they face daily is so important to help others understand. After you hear the same thing over and over, it starts to mean less. But when you hear these people's personal stories and the all the terrible things they've individually faced, like being bombed in a bomb shelter and watching hundreds of people die, it helps you remember that they are really people with families and lives, just likes us.
This play also reminds me of Come From Away. I'm sure it's not as bright and positive, but it's a similar type of storytelling. Telling the individual stories of people during a terrible historic event, to help remind people that it's more than numbers, these are real people.
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