An explosion destroys a reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Station. As the government tries to cover up the catastrophe, people carry on with their lives as if nothing had happened, all the while inhaling radioactive waste hanging above their heads.
Voices from Chernobyl is a moving account of how the Chernobyl tragedy disturbed the tranquillity of a warm April night and changed the lives of the people in nearby towns forever.
The play is adapted from the book by Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian writer who collected hundreds of stories from the victims of Chernobyl: stories which reveal the carelessness of the government and the reckless heroism of the soldiers, but most of all the enormous human capacity to love and to care for each other in the time of a crisis.
Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.
Listing
VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL
Tuesday 2 to Saturday 13 May 2017 at 7.45pm
Brockley Jack Studio Theatre 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH
Tuesday 14 March to Saturday 1 April 2017 at 7.45pm
Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
Christine Penmark has it all. A loving husband. A beautiful home. The perfect daughter.
But when tragedy strikes on Rhoda’s school trip, and a classmate is discovered drowned, Christine is forced to confront the growing number of “accidents” that happen when her daughter is around.
Obedient, charming and intelligent beyond her years, Rhoda is a parent’s dream child. But what if underneath the sweet exterior beats the heart of a cold-blooded sociopath?
Regarded as one of Broadway’s outstanding and chilling hits, OutFox Productions present Pulitzer Prize winner Maxwell Anderson’s play, adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by William March.
The Bad Seed is revived by OutFox, whose previous work at the Jack includes Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, Patrick Hamilton’s Rope and Sarah Daniel’s The Gut Girls.
