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A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine
Dick Vosburgh
When the Hurlyburly's Done
by Richard Nelson
Synopsis
In 1920, thirty-two-year-old Les Kurbas (the founder of the modern Ukrainian theatre), takes a group of young actors out of war-torn Kyiv into the countryside where they will perform plays, bartering tickets for food.
One such play is MACBETH, the first Shakespeare production ever in Ukrainian.
While Kurbas and most of the company attend a show by a local theater company performed in their honor, six young women, four actresses, a pianist, and a dancer stay behind with their children.
Over a meal which they cook from the proceeds of that evening's show, the young women talk, complain, joke, make fun of themselves, laugh, rehearse dances from the show, all while in pain, heartbroken, lost, scared, and with a need to be together.
Publication
When the Hurlyburly's Done is a play written by Richard Nelson and published by Broadway Play Publishing (2025).
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