Bad Roads

Eight Talents Adami Theatre actors and actresses are taking part in the public reading game, performing three English texts translated into French for the 77th edition of the Festival d'Avignon. Under the direction of Lucy Morrison and Sam Pritchard, the young Talents Adami Theatre had the opportunity to rehearse in London at the Royal Court Theatre before the performances in the cour du Musée Calvet.

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

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.

Natalka Vorojbyt’s seminal 2017 play was commissioned through the Royal Court's International programme and first produced at the theatre as a powerful document of Russia’s first invasion of Crimea and the Donbas.

Natalka Vorojbyt was born in Kiev and studied at the Moscow Literary Institute. She took part in the Royal Court International Residency in 2005. She is co-founder of the Theatre of the Displaced in Kiev and curator of the "Class Act" project in Ukraine. For the theatre, she has written Bad Roads, The Chronicles of the Khomenko Family, Maidan Diaries (all at the Royal Court Theatre),Vy (Maksim Golenko, Magdeburg), Shame (Artishok/The Almaty, Kazakhstan), Prends les Ordures, Sasha (National Theatre of Scotland/Òran Mór), The Grain Store (RSC), Demons (Moscow/Latvian National Theatre) and Galka Motalko (Moscow/Latvian National Theatre). His films include Bad Roads, Cyborgs, Voroshilovgrad. She has received several awards, including the Eureka Prize for Galka Motalko and the Golden Mask for Docudrame (Vy).

With Barbara Chanut, Mohamed El Mazzouji, Anaïs Gournay, Manon Hugny, Damoh Ikheteah, Tom Pezier, Arthur Rémi, Ophélie Ségala
Translation Iryna Dmytrychyn, éditions l'Espace d'un instant