Bonjour,
We had a great opening weekend for “Green Corridors.” We are happy that so many of you could be with us. It’s an important play about an important subject and if you; haven’t yet made your reservations, do it today.
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“Few theatres in Southern California engage with global socio-political urgencies as relentlessly or uncompromisingly as City Garage. With their West Coast premiere of Natalka Vorozhbyt’s Green Corridors, artistic director Frédérique Michel brings a devastating and timely piece of Ukrainian drama to Santa Monica. Translated with razor-sharp precision and vibrant, darkly humorous immediacy by John Freedman with Nataliia Bratus, the script preserves the full and harrowing trauma of displacement during wartime without losing its biting absurdity. It offers an urgently vital text and is an inspired programming choice for City Garage. Michel’s staging is characteristically dynamic, highly kinetic and visually stylized….[Angela] Beyer is commanding and powerful, possessing a rare fluid command of the playing style and seamlessly navigating its extreme demands while maintaining an undeniable core of emotional truth….[Cruz] St. James, making a welcome return after his City Garage debut in Charles Mee’s Limonade Tous les Jours only a few months ago, turns in another exceptionally strong performance….an exceptionally important story to tell and a production that demands to be seen.” — Travis Michael Holder, TicketHolders LA
“Green Corridors is a tale of resilience and resistance, yet shows a faint glimmer of hope and progress. This is a production which is well worth a look.” — Rich Borowry, AccessiblyLiveOffLine
Green Corridors by Natalka Vorozbhyt
Translated by John Freedman with Natalia Bratus
The west coast premiere of the critically acclaimed play by one of Ukraine’s most esteemed playwrights and screenwriters. Green Corridors explores the human cost of war, examining the harrowing yet darkly humorous realities of four Ukrainian women who have fled their country following Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion: a woman who reluctantly left her pets behind, a mother adjusting to life away from her husband on the front lines, a woman bearing physical and psychological trauma, and an actress determined to share Ukraine’s story with the world. It alternates between the women’s current shared reality in crowded European refugee centers and flashbacks detailing their past lives, blending modern experiences with cinematic flashbacks of Ukrainian historical figures who also faced agonizing choices in the face of invasion. It is a story of resilience and resistance, of courage and heartache, of loss and determination.
See you at the theatre!
Merci,
Frédérique, Charles & Archie ❤️
