Lucky Breaks
October 11 - October 27
$25 – $50
The Brick presents
Lucky Breaks
By Yevgenia Belorusets
Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky
Adapted by Jaclyn Biskup & Sara Farrington
Live Performances October 11-27, 2024
Livestream Oct 20 at 5PM
at The Brick – 579 Metropolitan
Adapted by Jaclyn Biskup & Sara Farrington
Directed by Jaclyn Biskup
Production Stage Manager Sam Kersnick
Scenic Design by Nora Smith Marlow
Costume Design by Kristy Hall
Lighting Design by Jackie Fox
Sound Design by James Worth Bennett
Additional Choreography by Oksana Horban
Featuring Katie Broad, Hanna Datsko, Monica Goff, Jennifer McClinton, and Kara Jackson
A woman who runs a flower shop vanishes suddenly and no one asks questions. Another can’t seem to escape her broken umbrella. Another decides she can walk no further and becomes a living monument. Darkly comic, haunting, and mysterious, the extraordinary stories of Lucky Breaks depict the effects of the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine on the lives of ordinary women. An expressionistic physical score accompanies the poetic language of each brief story, bending reality into a series of movements and gestures, creating evocative imagery that defies the typical war narrative and exposes the mundane, horrific, and absurd.
If you purchase a ticket to view the Oct 20 livestream, you will receive the access link via email.
Following the 5PM performance on Oct 20, there will be a talkback featuring Katie Walker, Talkback Facilitator and NYC Metro-Regional VP for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and Jennifer Wilson, Staff Writer for The New Yorker, PhD in Slavic Language and Literature. Her review of Lucky Breaks can be found here.