A Dictionary Of Ukrainian Emotions

We are pleased to present the trailer for the new season of the Ukrainian Spaces podcast, which is available on UP.  For our fifth season, Ukrainian Spaces returns to where it began: revisiting six Ukrainians from the 2022 inaugural season to see how hope, resistance, and resilience have shaped their lives. Across six episodes – fear, belonging, language, love, resistance, and the future – ou...

Today, we present the ninth and final episode of A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast. This episode features a remarkable guest appearance by American actor of Kosovo origin, Kushtrim Hoxha, who has himself endured the tragedy of war in the Balkans. In this episode, he brings to life a text by Ukrainian playwright Maksym Kurochkin titled Three Attempts to Improve Daily Life. The narrative ce...

On the eve of the New Year, the eighth episode of A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast is released, and we are pleased to invite you to a new emotional journey with the wonderful American actress Sharon Washington, who reads the text My Tara by Lyudmyla Tymoshenko. This work begins with the Ukrainian author's childhood impressions of the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and refl...

In the seventh episode of A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast, American actress Jessica Hecht, best known for her memorable roles in the cult TV series Friends and Breaking Bad, reads Flowering by Ukrainian playwright Olha Matsiupa. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of the author’s memories of a trip to Sievierodonetsk on the eve of the full-scale invasion. Olha Matsiupa reflects o...

In the sixth episode of the A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast, Kathleen Chalfant, an iconic figure in the world of American theatre and film, reads a text by Ukrainian playwright Iryna Harets, Planting an Apple Tree. Iryna Harets created this text in the most disturbing days, at the very beginning of the full-scale invasion, when the familiar world seemed to be shattered into pieces. In i...

In the fifth episode of A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast, acclaimed British actor Kevin McMonagle performs a reading of Survivor’s Syndrome by Andrii Bondarenko. The reading, brought to life under the direction of Simon Usher, artistic director of Presence Theatre, captures the essence of a work that is both haunting and profound. Survivor's Syndrome is a dramatic poem written in the ear...

In the fourth episode of the A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast, iconic American actor Joe Spano reads Call Things by their Names, a text by Ukrainian playwright Tetyana Kytsenko. Written in the early days of the full-scale invasion, Kytsenko piece delves into questions of national identity and cultural heritage. She contemplates how war reshapes self-awareness, urging a renewed understand...

In the third episode of the A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast, American actor, director, and producer Wayne Maugans, known for his work in theatre, film, and television, reads from The Peed-Upon Armoured Personnel Carrier, a play by Ukrainian playwright Oksana Grytsenko. The play tells the story of life in a small village in southern Ukraine during the Russian occupation. The villagers, i...

In the second episode of a Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions podcast, star Kristin Milward reads Oksana Savchenko's powerful monologue, I Want to Go Home. This emotionally charged piece portrays a woman living through the war, reflecting on how it alters people's lives, perspectives, and dreams. The author contrasts memories of past happiness and freedom with the harsh realities of the present. Alt...

 The first episode of "A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions" centres on Anastasiia Kosodii’s short play "How to Talk to the Dead" , written in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The play was inspired by the horrors witnessed in cities like Bucha, Mariupol, and others. The podcast itself grew from the anthology "A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War" , initiated and transl...