Hyde Park Theatre,
The Hidden Room,
Whirligig, and
Penfold Theatre Company have joined the Ukrainian component of the
Worldwide Readings Project to produce readings of four plays by Ukrainian playwrights. That's
The Peed-Upon Armored Personnel Carrier by
Oksana Grytsenko, directed by
Ken Webster;
In the Darkness by
Natalia Blok, directed by
Beth Burns;
Planting an Apple Tree by
Iryna Harets, directed by
Ken Webster; and
Give Me a Taste of the Sun by
Oleksandr Viter, directed by
Liz Fisher. Note: This 75-minute evening's proceeds will go to the
Emergency Fund for Performance Arts Artists in Ukraine, a fund for the eight thousand artists and their families who are still there.