Maksym Kurochkin, Natalka Vorozhbyt

A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War

20 Short Works by Ukrainian Playwrights
Herausgeber: Freedman, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Laertes
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 173mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781942281443
• ISBN-10: 1942281447
• Artikelnr.: 68111120

Autorenporträt

Maksym Kurochkin, a playwright and screenwriter, is one of the most respected writers in Ukraine. Born in Kyiv, he studied history and archeology at Shevchenko National University. In the late 1990s, he graduated from the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow and split his time between Kyiv and Moscow for the next 18 years. His early iconic productions include Kitchen (Moscow, 2000), Stalova Volya (Kyiv, 2001), Repress and Excite (Moscow, 2008), The Schooling of Bento Bonchev (Moscow, 2010; Austin, Texas, 2012), Dulcey and Roxy at City Hall (Austin, Texas, 2014), Vodka, Fucking, and Television (Moscow, 2006; Austin, Texas, 2012; Kyiv, 2017), Titus the Immaculate (Moscow, 2016), and Be Silent, Oedipus (Moscow, 2016). He returned to live and work permanently in his native city of Kyiv in 2017. Some of his major works during this period were Russiaphobia, Kherson, Asexuals, Laurels, and Tolik the Milkman. His plays have been performed around the world.