„Teraz jest czas nowej dramaturgii”: wokół Spichlerza Natalii Worożbyt
“Now Is the Time of New Dramaturgy”: Toward Natalia Vorozhbyt's The Grain Store

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the drama The Grain Store, written by the eminent Ukrainian playwright Natalia Vorozhbyt, reconstructs the accompanying reception, and analyses literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts. Natalia Vorozhbyt’s play The Grain Store was first staged in an English translation by Sasha Dugdale by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2009. The drama directed by Andriy Prykhodko appeared on the Ukrainian stage only in 2015. However, the director’s version of Maxim Holenko from 2022 was considered a phenomenon on the Ukrainian theatre map. Natalia Vorozhbyt's drama is an innovative attempt to explore the Holodomor in “new writing” terms. Creating the multidimensional and multi-voice world of drama, Natalia Vorozhbyt uses both historiography and oral history, and also refers to family history. For the playwright, it is important to show active and critical remembering as a practice necessary to survive and preserve one's own identity – both individual and collective.

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