The Reckoning : Making a Theatre Show

“Finding a way to keep the darkness but continue to keep
the joy so that there’s moments of relief in the theatre, that
the actors feel it, that the audience feel it too. That’s really
the challenge for me - how to make powerful theatre.”
Josephine Burton, Artistic Director, Dash Arts


This year Dash Arts is developing a new theatre production,
The Reckoning; based on personal accounts of
survivors of the Russian war in Ukraine from the vast testimony
archive shared by The Reckoning
Project, who has been gathering
testimony from survivors of detentions, torture and shelling.
Journalists are working with lawyers and analysts to collect
these stories that can be submitted as evidence in court.


Josephine will be in Cambridge on Wednesday 20th
March to share excerpts from the latest version of the
production and will be speaking with Rory Finnin, Professor of
Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge, about our
research on the war in Ukraine for The
Reckoning. Get your tickets here.


In the podcast, we hear from:


Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 


Anastasiia Kosodii - Playwright 


Lou Platt - Psychotherapist and Artist Wellbeing practitioner


Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer, Dash Arts 


Cristina Catalina, Vadym Golovko, Sam Kyslyi, Yulia Litvinenko,
Mark Quartley and Olga Safronova - Cast of The Reckoning Research
and Development Week (December 2023)


Music from The Reckoning by Anton Baibakov


Outro music : Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi


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