Bad Roads

“I spend the night in an officer’s barracks, where no woman has ever set foot.”

In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging.

A journalist takes a research trip to the front line.
Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches.
A medic mourns her lover killed in action.

Heart-breaking, powerful and bitterly comic accounts of what it is to be a woman in wartime.

“A body without a head in a body bag just doesn’t turn me on.”

Natal’ya Vorozhbit is the leading Ukrainian playwright of her generation and has worked with the Royal Court since 2004. Her work includes The Khomenko Family Chronicles, Maidan (Royal Court) and The Grain Store (RSC). Bad Roads will be directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.

Big Idea: Natal’ya Vorozhbit in Conversation
Sat 25 Nov evening, post-show
Writer Natal’ya Vorozhbit and translator Sasha Dugdale in conversation with the Royal Court Young Agitators.
The event is free with a ticket to that evening’s performance.