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'An active social act': the Ukrainian playwright paying tribute to her mother on stage by David Smith In Washington

In her new play, based on WhatsApp correspondence, Sasha Denisova uses her 82-year-old mother Olga to tell a vital story of resistance and survival For a year Sasha Denisova didn't tell her mother, Olga, who lives in Ukraine, that she had written a play about her. When director Yury Urnov made plans to stage it in the US, Denisova vowed to herself every month: "I need to tell my mama. I need to tell my mama. I need t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM on September 18, 2023

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