He Who Opens the Door
by Neda Nezhdana
by Neda Nezhdana
In a black comedy set in present-day Ukraine, two women find themselves trapped in a morgue, questioning their reality as they navigate the uncertainty of war outside and the implications of a potential escape.
About The Play
About The Play
Ukraine, the present: two women find themselves trapped in a morgue…
Are they actually dead and being held in limbo…? Or maybe there is a nuclear war or pandemic outside…? Is help on its way? Is someone listening in? Could their escape depend on playing for the right side – pro European or pro Russian. And if the door does open, will it be safe to leave?
A highly topical black comedy, reflecting the limbo for some people in eastern Ukraine, caught between opposing forces.
Available FREE TO VIEW on the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel #FinboroughFrontier here.
All videos are free to view but we do ask for donations for The Voices of Children Foundation, a Ukrainian charity providing urgently needed psychological and psychosocial support to children affected by the war in Ukraine. More information here.
Available from Monday, 28 November 2022 at 6.00pm
Simultaneously available free with subtitles on Scenesaver here.
Performance Length: 40 minutes.
#FINBOROUGHFRONTIER
During lockdown, our acclaimed #FinboroughForFree series released monthly free-to-view archive recordings and original online content including new plays, rediscoveries, a community festival, and the Finborough Forum, our invitation-only group for theatre creatives. Our online work saw us awarded London Pub Theatres’ Award for Pub Theatre of the Year 2020, and our web series Late Night Staring At High Res Pixels won London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award for Best Online Theatre 2021.
We strongly believe that online work is an exciting new complement to our work, and are anxious to explore this new medium, embracing anything that can be presented digitally including film, livestream, audio, and hybrid. We are especially keen to develop digital work to increase our international engagement, and also to ensure that our work is truly available for everyone, especially those who cannot easily access our auditorium.
Since January 2022, we have continued our online work under a brand new name – #FinboroughFrontier, curated by Artistic Director Neil McPherson and Playwright-in-Residence Athena Stevens. All our online content will remain – as it was throughout lockdown – entirely free to view, and also be available in a subtitled version. Our first releases, earlier this year, were An Earls Court Miscellany, a celebration of the vivid history and personalities of Earl’s Court featuring poetry, prose and music, and filmed in the local area, and How To Make A Revolution by Einat Weizman with Issa Amro, a verbatim documentary play filmed in the UK and Hebron.
#VoicesFromUkraine #Українськіголоси #Ukrayinsʹkiholosy
Previous releases in the #VoicesFromUkraine #Українськіголоси #Ukrayinsʹkiholosy include Otvetka by Neda Nezhdana, The Peed-Upon Armored Personnel Carrier by Oksana Gritsenko, A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War by Yelena Astasyeva, and director Polly Creed interviewing Tetyana Filevska and Karina Sabri. All are now available on the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel, and available with subtitles on Scenesaver.
Live productions included Two Ukrainian Plays featuring Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s Take The Rubbish Out, Sasha in a double bill with Neda Nezhdana’s monologue Pussycat in Memory of Darkness, pairing Ukraine’s leading contemporary playwright together with a Ukrainian playwright making her UK debut, which played at the Finborough Theatre in August.