A quartet of plays by Georgian and Ukranian playwrights will be presented by the Royal Court to complement Anna Wakulik’s A Time To Reap, which runs in the venue’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from mid-February.
The plays, by Ukranian playwrights Oksana Savchenko, Evgeniy Makovskiy and Mariam Agamian, and Georgian Lasha Bugadze, are to be given rehearsed readings between 12 and 15 March as part of the Royal Court’s International Playwrights Genesis Foundation Project.
The plays have grown out of the Royal Court’s ongoing project with a group of 12 writers, that has included Constellations playwright Nick Payne, Jumpy playwright April De Angelis and director Ramin Gray travelling to Tblisi, Lviv and Kyiv to work with the writers.
The plays traverse drama about living in the frontline of the new Ukraine, a comedy about presidential cowardice, a drama about growing up and a foul-mouthed comedy of sex, drugs and rock n roll. Each has been translated into English for its Royal Court performance.
Wakulik’s A Time To Reap, which is also staged as part of the project, is one woman’s tale set against the mountain landscape of an evolving nation and one of Poland’s hottest political topics, abortion and the Catholic Church.