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Bad Roads (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

Bad Roads (NHB Modern Plays)

Natal'ya Vorozhbit

Translator Sasha Dugdale

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

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.
Available since: 01/12/2017.
Print length: 80 pages.

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