The Clear Blue Skies: Diaries from Ukraine

Within days of the start of the war in 2022, a group of Ukrainian children and teenagers began recording interviews and audio diaries in English to share their stories with the world. They have become a remarkable chronicle of young people plunged into war and crisis—from becoming refugees across Europe to living under Russian occupation and recording from behind enemy lines.

The Clear Blue Skies uses excerpts from these gripping recordings, listened to live by actors on stage and performed using a real-time in-ear verbatim technique. The result is an urgent and intimate transmission about the trauma of war and the resilience and humor of young people in the digital age facing an unknown future for their country.

The evening will include a performance followed by a discussion with policy experts about the current war in Ukraine.