Devised Play Project

Winter 2025

In January, 2025, as Kyiv entered a long dark winter, the writers interviewed 15 university students in Kyiv about their dreams, relationships, and living with war.

The result is a devised play set overnight at Karpenko Kary National University of Theater, Cinema and Television in Kyiv, where a group acting students meet to clean their studio before their performance of The Tempest.

As they try get serious and get the job done, they deal with the realities of war when they wish they could just be acting students, miss curfew and become stuck over night. Together, they question if war took their youth.

A reading in NYC is planned for spring.

Thank you to all the playwrights and directors who have given us guidance in the last two months. Theresa Rebeck, Jacquelyn Reingold, Stephen Belber, Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen, Jessica Goldberg, Daniel Goldfarb, John Gould Rubin