Literature & Literary Studies
Bad Roads
by Nataliia Vorozhbyt
Description
Nataliia Vorozhbyt became famous when she worked as a screenwriter on the cult TV series To Catch the Kaidash, based on the life of the Ukrainian classic writer Nechuy-Levytsky, and even played a role in it as a supporting actress. Her play Bad Roads was written for the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was also staged by the Kyiv Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy and later adapted into a hit film. Bad Roads consists of six episodes: they are the stories of ordinary men and women whose fate brought them to Donbas during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Some episodes have even shocked audiences, like the episode where a naked eighth-grade schoolgirl is found in a military dugout. Disputes over Bad Roads are still raging, but they only manage to increase interest in Vorozhbyt’s work.
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Foreign rights sold: French language.
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Author Biography
Nataliia Vorozhbyt is a Ukrainian playwright, director, screenwriter, and curator. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute. Previously, she worked as the editor-in-chief at STB. At the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war, she co-founded the Theater of the Displaced with German film director Georg Genoux, where refugees from Donbas could tell their stories. Vorozhbyt is also a co-curator of the DonCult and GOGOLFEST festivals and is one of the Topical Play Week drama festival’s founders. She is the author of 15 plays, the most notable of which are Viy: Docudrama, The Grainary, Bad Roads, Sasha, Take Out the Garbage. Some of her works have been staged in Russia, the UK, Poland, the US, and Latvia. She was awarded the Verona Film Club Prize and Film Circle’s Opening of the Year Award for the film adaptation of Bad Roads (2020).
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Anetta Antonenko Publishers
- Publication Date 2021
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786177654673
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages96
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleПогані дороги
- Original Language AuthorsВорожбит Наталка
