My Chernobyl
by Aaron Bushkowsky
Winner of the 2008 Victoria
Critics’ Spotlight award for Best Professional Production and Best
New Play
A naive Canadian man travels
to Belarus to give an inheritance
to his father’s last remaining relative. While there, he meets his
long-lost cousin, a beautiful, young Russian woman, who sets
her sights on her wealthy relative as a ticket out of the radiation-blasted
country. My Chernobyl is a quirky romance set in the
existential old country, where cultures and ideals clash with
touching and hilarious results.
“If Gogol had been Canadian,
he might have written something like My Chernobyl.”
—The Vancouver Courier
“A Canadian innocent experiences
the bleakness of post-Communist, post-Chernobyl Eastern Europe and the
gentle absurdism of Chekhov.”
—The Vancouver Province
“My Chernobyl
repeatedly surprised me into laughter—and challenged me to think seriously
about why I had laughed…. splendidly original work…”
—The Georgia Straight
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