Theatre Keeps Us Warm - A Diary of Making Theatre During a Cold Winter in Kyiv, 2026

Theatre Keeps Us Warm - A Diary of Making Theatre During a Cold Winter in Kyiv, 2026 - Paperback

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Theatre Keeps Us Warm - A Diary of Making Theatre During a Cold Winter in Kyiv, 2026 - Paperback

Theatre Keeps Us Warm - A Diary of Making Theatre During a Cold Winter in Kyiv, 2026 - Paperback

by Richard Nelson
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Book Overview

In January 2026, American playwright and director Richard Nelson returned to Kyiv for a third winter of making theatre at the Theater on Podil.

As Russian attacks left the city facing blackouts, freezing temperatures, air raids, and uncertainty, Nelson rehearsed More Beauty Than Sorrow, his new play about Lesya Ukrainka and the Kosach family, written specially for Ukrainian actors.

Theatre Keeps Us Warm is a diary of rehearsal rooms, shelters, icy streets, shared meals, exhaustion, courage, and artistic trust. Intimate, humane, and powerful, it captures theatre as an act of warmth, witness, and resistance in a city at war.


"If there is theatre, it means that life goes on. And as long as there is theatre, people's hearts will be warm."
--from foreword by Larissa Volokhonsky
ISBN9781066622917
Author Richard Nelson
PublisherSalamander Street Ltd.
GenreBiography, Arts, and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages194
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Richard Nelson's many plays include Illyria; The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Hungry, What Did You Expect?, and Women of a Certain Age); The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country (That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, and Sorry, Regular Singing); Nikolai and the Others; Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award for Best Play); Franny's Way; Some Americans Abroad; Frank's Home; Two Shakespearean Actors; and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical). He has also written for film, namely the screenplays for Hyde Park-on-Hudson and Ethan Frome. He is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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