Playwright Sasha Denisova
the weight of the World on Atlas
When the Russian- Ukrainan war broke out in 2022, the world gave a hard cry for democracy. The standpoint for most nations, given the power to govern under a democratic republic, were in reaction showing support for the Ukranians toward this Nineteenth Century war tactic brought on by the diabolical dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. Spun by the media and the modern world, as an invasion on Ukraine, but what is not clear to the general public is the nationalism.
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, not nearly as civilized as she imagines herself to be! In this comedic rendition of a series of phone calls between mother and daughter, we view the interrelational effects of violence, signs of our surroundings and perception, and unconditional love. Sasha, played by Suli Holum, narrates the performance of hysterical scenarios which defined setting the stage to compose an assortment of non sequitur illusions, and far off assumptions, or imagining the immediate threat in the most absurd fashion.
The play documents the cultural setting of a provincial comedy to dramatize the discourse, looking back on memories of War times, WWII fighting nazi’s, moving in the direction of a more modern Europe, and the pace of technology for future generations/ the fashionable trends of consumerism.
First, the crude way in which the story is constructed by the Mother’s live in partner, Lindsay Smiling plays Man or Igor. The distances in which time enters a migrant story when an imaginary plot arises and watch it being recreated from the discourse over the phone. How the technology brings characterisation to understand the relationship, phone conversations materialise details within their personalities with heightened bravado or down right exaggeration.
The narrator telling the story, Suli Holum introduced the situation, to imagine this hellish comedy taking place amongst a real threat to their livelihood. Sasha the daughter of Olga, at times interact, and the scenario of this play between her mother, who brutally ridicules her as awkwardly unattractive; while the mother is described as a celebrity driven bourgeois, and a patriotic Ukrainian woman personally and desperately fighting in this delusional war against the Russians. We would call her crazy in her right mind. In Love and War All Is Fair, and her expressive quality characterizes the people in contradiction with this culture war, a critical mother-daughter overwhelming relationship. A nation in the same league as her larger-than-life personality. Olga is chain smoking, talking to her allies, President Biden, the U.N., and on skype to discuss the perils of war. The War takes on a whole new normal for the civilian stuck between warring nations.
In a Ukranian satire, the drama delivered in political initiations intervenes dangerous negotiations between nations for comedic outcome. The premise that there’s an uncanny realism to what surrounds the theater, and simply, a comedic characterisation of the bloody war in Ukraine.
storytelling begins to unfold with the introduction of characters. It gained much applause with special guests, President Biden or Vladimir Putin, arrive on the scene.
in the end, the total annihilation of the world, God, and the love that exists between Mother and Daughter. Bringing Joe BIden to the dinner table, and discussing what it means to have courage takes jabs in every direction of political warfare.
