Marta: What’s the point? Fuck rights, fuck agreements, fuck diplomacy, fuck diplomacy. All this is for the nuke. If you don't have nukes, fuck you, you're a cunt. So what's the point of living in a world where it's better to die fighting for that world, where law is, where humanity is, where humanism means less than just fucking “living to be old.” What's the point of living in a world where everyone wants to tear each other's throats out. This will be the whole world after Ukraine loses. If the world doesn't come to its senses now. FUCK IT. FUCK IT.
In January 2025, ten writers interviewed students in Kyiv and Dnipro, Ukraine for a “devised play” the writers would imagine and write together for actors to perform.
Several of the interview subjects were in acting or directing cohorts at Karpenko-Karyi University in Kyiv.
The play tells the story of 7 actors who come at the last minute, late on a Sunday, to clean their studio before they’re professor announces their parts in the diploma play they’ll perform that spring. It’s a Ukrainian tradition to clean your own classroom.
When a power outage stops them from working, they fool around for so long they end up stuck in the studio past curfew. As the night goes on, they’re attacked by drones and ballistics, face the circumstances of their lives, and try to escape through romance and bad jokes.
The devised play has been read on Zoom and in person by Petro Ninovskyi, Delilah Napier, Leela Bassuk, Rory Greenwood, Lily Mo Sheen, Julia Kim Caldwell, Brynn Guathier and more