I Want to Go Home Excerpt
by Oksana Savchenko
by Oksana Savchenko
A woman grappling with the chaos of war in Ukraine struggles with anger and confusion while waiting in Europe, missing her boyfriend who has stayed behind to fight.
About The Play
About The Play
The Finborough Theatre’s ongoing #VoicesFromUkraine season continues with a short video excerpt from Oksana Savchenko’s 2022 play, I Want To Go Home, premiering FREE-TO-VIEW on the Finborough YouTube channel on Thursday, 31 August 2023 at 9.00am, and concurrently on Scenesaver with subtitles.
This new video release premieres on the same day that the Finborough Theatre production of Pussycat in Memory of Darkness, also directed by Polly Creed, performs for the second time in Kyiv. Pussycat was the first play performed in Ukraine by a foreign company since the Russian invasion, and has since played in Germany and the USA. It now performs again in Kyiv at the Pro-English Theatre of Ukraine on 31 August and 2 September 2023.
“War is when you can’t breathe. Out of hatred. War is when your body is convulsed with pain for fear for your relatives. It is when you escape abroad with your child and spend all your time scrolling through the news.”
A woman waiting out the war in Europe attempts to make sense of what has befallen Ukraine following Russia’s attack on her nation. She is angry, and confused, and she misses her boyfriend, who remained behind to fight…