24 - 25 MAY 2023

Since 2014 war has been raging in Ukraine.
Heart-breaking, powerful and bitterly comic accounts of what it is to be a woman in wartime.

“Masterly & Woundingly Memorable” – The Independent

‘Bad Roads’ is a heart-breaking, powerful, bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime Ukraine.

It has been created from first hand interviews with women on the ground and looks at the de-humanising impact of war on women

We are ecstatic to be the first UK theatre company to bring this critically important play to the stage since it’s premiere at The Royal Court in 2017 and, therefore, since the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Our original plan was to perform it in 2020, but Covid had other ideas. Plan B was to re-schedule for 2022 and to perform a run of shows in Birmingham, UK and in Kyiv, Ukraine. These plans too have had to go on hold.

Though we hope to perform it in Kyiv in the not too distant future, we feel it’s imperative not to wait any longer to share Natal’ya’s work – her voice needs to be heard NOW.

Natal’ya Vorozhbit is the leading Ukrainian playwright of her generation. She wrote Bad Roads in 2017 in collaboration with The Royal Court in response to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.

She was living in Kyiv, Ukraine when Russian bombs began to fall in February 2022, forcing her to flee her home with just her daughter, her cat & her car.

She has since returned to Kyiv and is living there now.

This production of ‘Bad Roads’ is presented by special arrangement with Nick Hern Books