
Sitting in a circle the day before opening night, Ukrainian war veterans and drama students took turns reading their lines from a script that traveled centuries to reach them.
At the center was Olha Semioshkina, directing the group through her adaptation of “Eneida” by Ivan Kotliarevskyi — an 18th-century Ukrainian reimagining of Virgil's “Aeneid.” This production, though, had a modern-day message about resilience in the face of the war that's nearing its fourth year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.