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.
-We Can’t Be That Special a devised play by Young Playwrights Ukraine
We Can’t Be That Special
In January, 2025, as Kyiv entered a long dark winter, the young writers interviewed 15 university students in Kyiv about their dreams, relationships, and reality.
The result is a devised play set overnight at I Karpenko Karyi Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television, where a group of acting students are stuck in their studio after curfew.
Thank you to Theresa Rebeck, Jacquelyn Reingold, Stephen Belber, Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen, Jessica Goldberg, Daniel Goldfarb, John Gould Rubin, Ilana Levine and Kate Robin for your guidance.
We Can’t Be That Special
(a devised play) by Young Playwrights Ukraine
Reading at Vineyard Theatre Studio with Petro Ninovskyi, Brynn Gauthier, Lily Mo Sheen