Endless February III

With the series Endless February, Alesia Andrushevska and Iana Gudzenko give a human face to the war by presenting contemporary Ukrainian plays. Each stage reading or performance is followed by a discussion.  

Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha 

Kiev-based playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit wrote the magical realist play Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha in 2014, when the Russian army annexed the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. A year later, the Russian army occupied the Crimea in Southern Ukraine.  

Sasha, a colonel in the Ukrainian army who has died of a heart failure, sees his widow Katia and his stepdaughter Oksana prepare his funeral feast. A year later, the country will be engulfed in the events that can make the dead rise. Sasha is ready to be resurrected, but his family is not. They are reluctant to bury him again.