the strength of ukrainian people fight against fascism
When the Russian- Ukraine war broke out in 2022, The world gave a hard cry for democracy. The standpoint of all nations, given the power to govern under a democratic republic, in reaction to this Nineteenth Century war tactic brought into the media and the modern world showed the diabolical length in which a dictatorship by Vladimir Putin would go to take mineral rich land, and claim it as part of Russia.
Olga, played by Holly Twyford, a stubborn older-aged, upper class, bourgeoisie intellectual, sporting fur, and a cigarette with a daughter that is hopelessly awkward, and not to mention, as civilized as she imagines herself to be! In this comedic rendition of a series of phone calls between mother and daughter Sasha, played by Suli Holum, enacts a absolute performance of hysterical scenarios which…
in the end results in total annihilation of the world, God, and the love that exists between Mother and Daughter.
The play truly brings us into the intimate setting, and dramatizes the technological, analog communication, memories of the war against nazi seized parts of Europe, and what that means to future generations.
First, the crude way in which the story is constructed by the Mother’s live in partner, Lindsay Smiling plays Man or Igor. The setting distances in which time enters when it’s an imaginary plot recreating the memory, or a characterisation materialises with heightened bravado or color.
The narrator telling the story sets the pace for us to imagine this hellish comedy that threatens their livelihood. Sasha is accompanied by her mother at times and the scenario of this older woman(her mother) whom she brutally renders as a thick headed celebrity driven bourgeois, and patriotic Ukrainian woman, is desperately fighting anyone would call her crazy in their right mind. Except, in love and war all is right, and expressions of remembering a similar war time by the aging woman, chain smoking, wearing fur takes on a whole new normal.
My Mama and The Full-Scale Invasion
Sasha Denisova
Drama told in the fear of missing out (FOMO); in a Russian satirical drama delivered by political theater to intervene danger with comedy. The premise is given- there’s an uncanny realism to what surrounds the theater of characterisation and making fun of a deadly war in Ukraine.
storytelling begins to unfold with the introduction of characters. It gains much applause when President Biden or Vladimir Putin arrive on the scene.