A journalist meets a man in a ruined village outside Kyiv.
Why don’t you start with when the war began for you?
The Man from Stoyanka is a security guard, just an ordinary man. But when everyone else flees, he stays. As his home turns into a no man’s land, he chooses to take extraordinary action.
And she’s there to record it – for the history books, the courts, for humanity.
Playful and unsettling, Offie-nominated The Reckoning is a vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth and those who must live with it.
Based on real events within The Reckoning Project’s verified archive of witness testimonies of the Russian war in Ukraine, each performance is followed by Food for Thought, a reflection from a journalist, lawyer or those with direct experience of the conflict.
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Running time
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Age guidance
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Content warnings
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Discounts
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"A forensic charge sheet in dramatic form"– The Guardian
"Powerful and important – a reminder of our collective responsibility to bear witness"– The Stage
"There is not a moment that you are not gripped"– Theatre and Tonic
"Brilliant, sharp, stage craft"– The Reviews Hub
"Powerful, sensorially immersive"– Everything Theatre
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The Company
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Josephine Burton
Director and Co-writer
Josephine Burton
Director and Co-writer
Josephine Burton is a theatre director, playwright, dramaturg, and Artistic Director of Dash Arts, which she co-founded to create award-winning, cross-artform work connecting audiences with global stories. Over nearly two decades, she has directed and developed over 80 productions and events that blend artistic excellence with social and political resonance, work that has been praised for its “immersive ingenuity… that stretches the vocabulary of the stage” (Observer).
Recent highlights include directing Dido’s Bar (2022), an immersive retelling of Virgil’s Aeneid, The Great Middlemarch Mystery (2022), exploring Thatcherite Britain, and Songs for Babyn Yar (2021–2022), a commemoration of Holocaust memory performed internationally. She has co-written The Reckoning (2025), a multidisciplinary exploration of justice in Ukraine, and served as dramaturg on Lyrical Alliance and Renegade Orchestra.
Josephine is also an artist who has created work for Tate Modern and the host of over 50 Dash Arts Podcasts and 100 Dash Cafés, where she collaborates with academics, artists, and communities to explore contemporary issues.
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Anastasiia Kosodii
Co-writer
Anastasiia Kosodii
Co-writer
Anastasiia Kosodii is a Ukrainian Playwright and director based in Berlin. Also a co-founder of the Theater of Playwrights (Kyiv), her plays have been read and performed in theatres across Ukraine and Europe.
Before the full-scale Russian invasion, Anastasiia often worked with NGOs in Eastern Ukraine in towns on the frontline.
Her international work has been presented at Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin), Münchner Kammerspiele Theater and National Theater Mannheim, where she became Resident Playwright in 2022.
Her play How to Talk to the Dead (Wie man mit Toten spricht) opened in Mannheim in April 2023 to critical acclaim: “Kosodii’s undeniable ability to portray the human condition and protect it from theatrical affectation ultimately yields in an aesthetic quality that encompasses both moral claim and political statement.” Mannheimer Morgen
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Anton Baibakov
Composer
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Zoë Hurwitz
Set Designer
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Joshua Pharo
Lighting Designer
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Josie Daxter
Movement Director
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Olivia Jamieson
Costume Designer
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Bella Kear
Sound Designer
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Lou Platt
Artist Wellbeing
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Olia Hercules
Food Consultant
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Abby Galvin
Casting Director
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Nataliya Gumenyuk and Peter Pomerantsev
Testimonies Consultants
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The Reckoning has been made possible with the support of partners The Reckoning Project, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Award from the University of Cambridge, Public Interest Journalism Lab, Open Society Foundations, Nick Tranter in the name of 4Ukraine Humanitarian Aid, Fritt Ord Foundation, Goethe-Institut in Exile, Goethe-Institut London, SAV Group, The Golsoncott Foundation, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, and individual giving.