Endless February: performative stage reading of ‘Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha’

Sasha, a colonel in the Ukrainian army who died due to 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.

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. Within the year, the Russian army occupied the Crimea in Southern Ukraine.

During the second edition of Endless February, a group of Ukrainian and Dutch performers present a stage reading of the actual play in Frascati. Their full performance of ‘Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha’ takes place on Thursday, June 1^st, during the Forum on European Culture.

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.