Bad Roads (NHB Modern Plays)
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In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging.
A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns her lover killed in action.
Natal'ya Vorozhbit's play Bad Roads is a heartbreaking, powerful and bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime.
It was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, in November 2017, in a production directed by Vicky Featherstone. It was developed by the Royal Court International Department, and translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Natal’ya Vorozhbit
Natal’ya Vorozhbit (aka Natal'ia Vorozhbit) is a leading Ukrainian playwright. Her work includes The Khomenko Family Chronicles (Royal Court and BBC World Service; rehearsed reading at the Royal Court, 2006); The Grain Store (RSC, 2009); Maidan: Voices from the Uprising (Royal Court, 2014); and Bad Roads (Royal Court, 2017).
She is the co-founder of the Theatre of the Displaced in Kiev and curator of the Class Act project in Ukraine.
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