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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Charlotte Higgins in Kyiv

I Will Return: play brings to life stories of Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Kateryna Vyshneva performs as a teacher with red lipstick smeared over her mouth
Actor Kateryna Vyshneva performs as a teacher at the summer camp. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian

In a small, underground theatre in central Kyiv, an audience is watching – at times with perfectly still attention, at times with roars of laughter – a story that is so raw and painful that it is hard to believe it has already found its way on to the stage.

I Will Return, by the playwright Oksana Grytsenko, is a drama about three children from Ukraine who find themselves stranded, unable to return home, in a summer camp in illegally occupied Crimea.

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