Kristin Goes to Ukraine
https://vimeo.com/827373433In February 2022, after Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the translator of Andrei’s play, John Freedman, put out a request for theatres across the world to stage Ukrainian plays by way of protest. I was asked to take the role of the unnamed woman in Pussycat in Memory of Darkness, a one-woman show, which I’ve subsequently taken to Ukraine, the US and Germany.
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Belarus
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In the winter of 2020, I made a 15 minute video which went viral in Belarus. It was made in direct response to the rigged elections that have kept Lugashenko in power, the man who has allowed Putin to park nuclear weapons in his country, as well as providing him access to Ukraine through Belarus. I was asked a few months later by David Wybrow, of the Cockpit Theatre, to run a series of performed zoom plays during the lockdown of 2021 and started with Andrei Kureichik’s play, Insulted, Belarus, written as violence exploded on the streets of his country.
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30 August 2023
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31 August and 2 September at the ProEnglish Theatre of Ukraine, Kyiv
Pussycat in Memory of Darkness | Kristin Milward (UK) | Ukr in Kyiv is possible thanks to The Armed Forces of Ukraine! Don`t miss 2023-09-02 в 16:00 on the ProEnglish Theatre Hub, Kyiv.
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14 August 2023
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Journey to Ukraine, Through a Snowbound Landscape
Andrew had offered – so kindly – to come with me to Ukraine. Thank God he was organising the flights, trains, airbnbs. I’m impatient at the best of times, with a tendency to panic – we’d have got
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20 April 2023
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The Shows, the People, the Destruction
Alex, the artistic director of the ProEnglish Theatre, met us off the train. He dismissed an elderly taxi driver – fur hat on his head and swathed in an enormous coat – saying that he’d charge us a fortune.
“Polly Creed’s direction is exquisite.”
– Alun Hood
“A powerhouse performance”
– Broadway World
“Quite extraordinary”
– Libby Purves
“Masterful framing of a nation’s tragedy…Nezhdana is something like a Ukrainian Caryl Churchill”
– The Guardian
“Extraordinary”
– The Stage
