{"product_id":"ukrainian-new-drama-after-the-euromaidan-revolution-9781350335912","title":"Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Bios\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalka Blok \u003c\/b\u003eis a dramatist and screenwriter, her plays have been staged in Ukraine at both state and independent theatre as well as abroad. Her texts have frequently been in the short lists of international and all-Ukrainian prestigious competitions It has translations into Polish, Georgian, French, English, Romanian, German and other languages. Founder of the Playwrights Theater (Kyiv). Screenwriter of a number of films and TV series. The winner of the competition from Netflix for Ukraine. In the spring of 2022, fleeing the war, she moved to Basel, where she continues to work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrii Bondarenko\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, journalist, and culturologist with a PhD in Philosophy. He is a co-founder of Kyiv's Theatre of Playwrights and participant in the Worlwide Ukrainian Play Readings Project curated by John Freedman. Bondarenko currently works as a dramaturg at the Lviv Puppet Theatre. He is the author of numerous plays that have been shortlisted for major Ukrainian drama festivals and performed in theatres throughout Europe. Major productions include: \u003ci\u003eUltima Thule \u003c\/i\u003eat Theatre Kolesa in Kyiv (2023), \u003ci\u003eLviv Tango \u003c\/i\u003eat the Maria Zankovetska Theatre in Lviv (2022), \u003ci\u003eSurvivor Syndrome \u003c\/i\u003eat HarMyDer Theatre in Lutsk (2022), \u003ci\u003eThe Light from Below: Stories from Ukrainian Basements \u003c\/i\u003eat the Baron's Court Theatre in London (2022), and \u003ci\u003eAsshole \u003c\/i\u003eat the Golden Gate Theatre in Kyiv (2020). Bondarenko is also the director of the short film \u003ci\u003eA Night with Natalia \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) which was screened at festivals in Kyiv and Prague.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnastasiia Kosodii\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, director, and one of the co-founders of Theater of Playwrights in Kyiv. Before the full-scale Russian invasion, Kosodii often worked with NGOs in Eastern Ukraine in towns on the front line of the war between Ukraine and Russia. Her international work is in connection to the Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin) and Münchner Kammerspiele Theater (Munich) and the Royal Court Theatre (London). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaksym Kurochkin\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, screenwriter, and a driving force behind the founding of Ukraine's Theatre of Playwrights. He was born in Kyiv and studied history at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. His plays have been translated and produced at major theatres across Europe and North America. At the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022 Kurochkin joined Ukraine's territorial defense and he has since joined the military.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLena Lagushonkova\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1984 into a family of engineers. She studied history at the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University and has worked in various fields. She moved to Kyiv at the start of the war in 2014 and made her debut as a playwright at the Week of Contemporary Plays' festival with her play \u003ci\u003eBaza\u003c\/i\u003e about women and prostitution. By 2022 more than ten of her plays had premiered in Ukrainian theatres including the cycle of plays about her hometown and its residents  \u003ci\u003ePGT\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mother by Gorky\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Banner was Pissed on by a Cat\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2021 Lagushonkova was a Laureate of the Aurora Festival (Bydgoszcz, Poland) and in 2022 she was awarded the European New Talent Drama Award (Stuttgart, Germany). Since 3 March 2022 she has been living and working in Poland. She likes wine, cats, and buns. She once fell into a canal in Venice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlha Matsiupa\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, a theatre historian, and a co-founder of Theatre of Playwrights in Kyiv. Originally from Lviv, Matsiupa graduated in Serbian philology from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. From 2011 to 2016 she studied at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, where she received a PhD in Theatre and Literary Studies. In 2014, Matsiupa was an intern at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. In 2019, she received a scholarship from the Gaude Po-lonia' programme. Her plays have frequently been longlisted and shortlisted at the Week of Contemporary Plays' festival (Kyiv) and Drama.UA (Lviv). In 2017, her play \u003ci\u003eEco Ballad\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated in the foreign drama' category at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt' in Germany. Matsiupa's plays have been staged in Rzeszow, Sosno-vec, Khust, Lviv, Severodonetsk and Chernivtsi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKateryna Penkova\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright originally from Donetsk. She is a graduate of the Kyiv State Academy of Performance and Circus Arts with a degree in acting. Her texts explore the topics of Russia's war in Ukraine, the occupation of Crimea, violence and sexual harassment, postcolonialism, gender and politics. Her plays have frequently been shortlisted for the Drama.UA festival in Lviv and the Week of Contemporary Plays festival in Kyiv. Her play Pork' was among the winners of the 2020 Transmission.UA: Drama on the Move playwrighting competition organized by the Ukrainian Institute. Kateryna is a co-founder of Ukraine's Theatre and Playwrights and is currently based in Warsaw. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalka\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eVorozhbyt\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. Her early play, \u003ci\u003eGalka Motalko\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Eureka Prize in 2003 and her play \u003ci\u003eThe Grain Store\u003c\/i\u003e, the first major play about Holodomor, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2009. She is the co-founder of the Theatre of the Displaced in Kiev and curator of Ukraine's Class Act: East-West' project which ran from 2016-18. Her 2017 play \u003ci\u003eBad Roads \u003c\/i\u003efirst produced by the Royal Court was later adapted into a film directed by the author and was chosen as Ukraine's official Oscar selection in 2022. Other screenwriting credits include \u003ci\u003eCyborgs: Heroes Never Die \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and the screen adaptation of Serhiy Zhadan's \u003ci\u003eVoroshilovgrad \u003c\/i\u003eentitled \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Fields \u003c\/i\u003e(2018).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator Bios\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUilleam Blacker\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research focuses on cultural memory in east central Europe and on Ukraine's diverse literary heritage. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMemory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: Ghosts of Others\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), co-author of \u003ci\u003eRemembering Katyn \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMemory and Theory in Eastern Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(2013). He has published translations of Ukrainian authors in, among others, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders, Modern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in several anthologies. His translation of Oleg Sentsov's \u003ci\u003eLife Went on Anyway\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Deep Vellum in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Clover\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, translator and director based in London. He is currently a reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e.  From 2017 to 2019, he worked with artists of the post-Euromaidan generation to create original work in government and independent theatres across Ukraine. His production \u003ci\u003eThe Orchard \u003c\/i\u003ewas staged at the Les Kurbas theatre in 2017. Jack also served as director in residence at the \u003ci\u003eZaporizhian New Drama \u003c\/i\u003eindependent where he staged \u003ci\u003eMars is a Wonderful Place\u003c\/i\u003e a satirical musical about emigration that toured to Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol the following year. He subsequently founded the company Theatre in Two Weeks' in 2018 and teamed up with the \u003ci\u003eTheatre of Displaced People\u003c\/i\u003e in Kyiv in December 2018 to curate the Silence isn't Golden' festival that saw playwrights Anastasiia Kosodii, Natalia Blok and Maksym Kurochkin create three fully-formed performances with professional directors in just two weeks. In 2019, Jack directed the Ukrainian premiere of Kosodii's\u003ci\u003e A\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTime Traveller's Guide to Donbas\u003c\/i\u003e at the Lesia Ukrainka Theatre in Lviv and created, with Kosodii, the musical \u003ci\u003eWhere I Will Remain \u003c\/i\u003efor Sumy's National Schepkin Theatre: a piece that remains in repertoire and was last performed in September 2022 despite Russia's full-scale invasion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSasha Dugdale\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator. Her translations include Natalka Vorozhbyt's \u003ci\u003eThe Grainstore\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBad Roads\u003c\/i\u003e for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre, and \u003ci\u003eIn Memory of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e by Maria Stepanova, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Her most recent poetry collection \u003ci\u003eDeformations\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaisy Gibbons\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator from Ukrainian and Russian into English. Her literary translations include Tamara Duda's Shevchenko Award-winning \u003ci\u003eDaughter \u003c\/i\u003e(Mosaic Press) and short stories in anthologies \u003ci\u003eLove in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (Deep Vellum) and \u003ci\u003eVoices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing From Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e (8th \u0026amp; Atlas Publishing). Extracts of her work have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarpers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Gibbons attended the University of Cambridge and lived in Ukraine and Russia for several years. She now lives between London and Wiltshire, UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelena Kernan \u003c\/b\u003eis a literary translator working from Ukrainian, Russian, French and German into English. Originally from London, she has lived in several European cities including Kyiv, where she worked with the Theatre of Displaced People and the Centre for Civil Liberties. She has been involved in multiple international projects focused on theatre, documentation, witness and historical memory, and is now based in Berlin. She holds master's degrees in Slavic Studies from the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley. In recent years she has dedicated herself to studying and translating contemporary Ukrainian drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRory Mullarkey\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright and translator of plays. His translations, including \u003ci\u003eRemembrance Day \u003c\/i\u003eby Aleksey Scherbak, \u003ci\u003ePagans \u003c\/i\u003eby Anna Yablonskaya and \u003ci\u003eThe Cherry Orchard \u003c\/i\u003eby Anton Chekhov, have been staged by The Royal Court Theatre, The Bristol Old Vic and The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. His original plays, includ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   Introduction    by Molly Flynn   Foreword        by Natalka Vorozhbyt   Bios                                                        \u003ci\u003eTake the Rubbish Out, Sasha  \u003c\/i\u003eby Natalka Vorozhbyt   \u003ci\u003eA Time Traveller’s Guide to Donbas\u003c\/i\u003eby Anastasiia Kosodii   \u003ci\u003ePilates Time \u003c\/i\u003e   by Olha Matsiupa   \u003ci\u003eBomb\u003c\/i\u003e   by Natalka Blok   \u003ci\u003eHouse of Ghosts. Why. We. Fled. Donbas \u003c\/i\u003eby Andrii Bondarenko   \u003ci\u003eI Don’t Remember the Name  \u003c\/i\u003eby Kateryna Penkova   \u003ci\u003eThe Mother by Gorky  \u003c\/i\u003eby Lena Lagushonkova   \u003ci\u003eTolyk the Dairyman\u003c\/i\u003e    by Maksym Kurochkin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407537414487,"sku":"9781350335912","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350335912.jpg?v=1730499707","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ukrainian-new-drama-after-the-euromaidan-revolution-9781350335912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}