Planting An Apple Tree
At Centaur Theatre’s Wildside Festival
February 8 - 11, 2023
by Iryna Harets with Clare Coulter
Translated from Ukrainian to English by John Freedman and Natalia Bratus
Photo Illustration by Peter Bottazzi, Original photo by Jonas St Michel
CREATIVE TEAM
Leslie Baker, Clare Coulter, Peter Bottazzi, Cédric Delorme-Bouchard, Peter-Cerone, Julio Mejia, Silvia Rignon, and Nan Shepard.
‘Ever since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, I have been trying to keep a balance.
Between rage and love.
Between hope and despair.
Between joy and sadness.
Between life and death.
The play Planting an Apple Tree is about the attempt to give birth to something new, about the striving for life and being creative in conditions that foster none of these endeavours. It is about Victory Gardens that give us hope, and blossom in our souls despite war and the cacophony of a mad world.’
Iryna Harets, December 2022, Ukraine
Photograph by Yanick Macdonald