WSPÓŁCZESNY DRAMAT UKRAIŃSKI WOBEC WOJNY: NA PRZYKŁADZIE SZTUKI NATALII WOROŻBYT ZŁE DROGI
CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN DRAMA ABOUT THE WAR: NATALIA VOROZHBIT’S PLAY BAD ROADS

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this study is the play Bad roads (2017) written by the Ukrainian playwrightNatalya Vorozhbit. The text was commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre (London). It wasalso staged in Kiev and received the award for “Best Direction” (Tamara Trunova, GRA Festival,2019). The action in the drama takes place during the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014-2016. Thewriter visited these areas and conducted many interviews. In Bad roads N. Vorozhbit focuses not onwarfare but on the catastrophic impact of war on everyday life. The author is interested in how wardamages the human mentality and psyche, how it influences building interpersonal relationships innew conditions, how war produces the desire to hurt people close to us, as well as unfamiliar ones,and how it affects the formation of intimate relationships. It is significant that an important role inthe drama was intended for women and aspects such as love, sex and erotic feelings. The author ofthe publication focuses on the three most important problems raised in the text: violence, trauma andthe creation of a hero (first glorification and then de-heroisation).

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