Bad Roads
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 3M, 4F
- ISBN: 9781848427143
"I spend the night in an officer’s barracks, where no woman has ever set foot."
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
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.
REVIEWS:
"Complex and compelling… an all-too-vivid vision of what it is to be a woman in wartime."
The Times
"A savage look at the dehumanising impact of war… swings between matter-of-fact horror and bitter comedy… masterly and woundingly memorable."
Independent
"Despite its grim subject matter, the play is often surprisingly still and quiet, and occasionally funny too… hammer[s] home the losses, desperations, brutal necessities and impossible resiliences of women in war."
The Stage
"The patchwork of stories and images creates a powerful, occasionally indelible, picture of contemporary warfare… thought-provoking and frightening."
The Arts Desk
"Powerful… in her relentless focus on conflict’s female victims, Vorozhbit shows herself to be a Ukrainian Sarah Kane."
The Guardian
"An urgent, visceral piece."
Exeunt Magazine
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers, Expandable casting
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