The Reckoning : Making a Theatre Show
“Finding a way to keep the darkness but continue to keep the joy so that there’s moments of relief in the theatre, that the actors feel it, that the audience feel it too. That’s really the challenge for me - how to make powerful theatre.” - Josephine Burton, Artistic Director, Dash Arts
This year Dash Arts is developing a new theatre production, The Reckoning, based on personal accounts of survivors of the Russian war in Ukraine from the vast testimony archive shared by The Reckoning Project, who has been gathering testimony from survivors of detentions, torture and shelling. Journalists are working with lawyers and analysts to collect these stories that can be submitted as evidence in court.
Josephine will be in Cambridge on Wednesday 20th March to share excerpts from the latest version of the production and will be speaking with Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge, about our research on the war in Ukraine for The Reckoning. Get your tickets here.
In the podcast, we hear from:
Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts
Anastasiia Kosodii - Playwright
Lou Platt - Psychotherapist and Artist Wellbeing practitioner
Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer, Dash Arts
Cristina Catalina, Vadym Golovko, Sam Kyslyi, Yulia Litvinenko, Mark Quartley and Olga Safronova - Cast of The Reckoning Research and Development Week (December 2023)
Music from The Reckoning by Anton Baibakov
Outro music : Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi