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.
Written by Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton, and directed by Burton, 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, The Reckoning is playful and unsettling, blending storytelling with movement, music and cooking.
Food for Thought
As the performance ends, the conversation continues. Audiences will be invited to hear reflections from expert speakers, journalists, lawyers, and those with lived experience of the conflict.
Speakers include Rory Finnin; Martin Bright, Index on Censorship; Alissa Timoshkina; Nataliya Gumenyuk in conversation with Josephine Burton; Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton in conversation with Dr Molly Flynn; Dr Olesya Khromeychuk; Maxine Marcus; Dr Yulia Ioffe; Orysia Lutsevych OBE; Olga Tokariuk; Olia Hercules; Aarif Abraham; Peter Jukes; Nick Tranter; Awet Fissehaye, English Pen; Uilleam Blacker; Kateryna Babkina, Index on Censorship; Inna Hryhorovych MBE; Oliver Bullough; UNHCR (speaker to be announced); Anna Reid; Luke Harding; Peter Pomerantsev; Viv Groskop; Lord Charles Banner KC; Valeriia Voshchevska; Hanna Komar, English Pen; and Josephine Burton and Daniella Peled.
Food For Thought will take place immediately after each performance and is included in the ticket price.
Previous praise for Dash Arts Productions.
“Immersive ingenuity... that stretches the vocabulary of the stage. Suddenly theatre is firing on its newest cylinder.” – The Observer on The Great Middlemarch Mystery
“Go and experience this moving, sensitively written, expertly directed and brilliantly-acted, epically relevant story.” – The Play’s The Thing on Dido's Bar
“Wonderful… Very moving, profound as well as brave and daring in raising difficult questions.” – BBC World Service on Songs for Babyn Yar
