My Chernobyl
Awards
- Winner, Victoria Critics Spotlight Award- Best Professional Production 2008
- Winner, Victoria Critics Spotlight Award- Best New Play 2008
Description
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.
Reviews
"My Chernobyl repeatedly surprised me into laughter—and challenged me to think seriously about why I had laughed… splendidly original work…" —The Georgia Straight
"A Canadian innocent experiences the bleakness of post-Communist, post-Chernobyl Eastern Europe and the gentle absurdism of Chekhov. " —The Vancouver Province
"If Gogol had been Canadian, he might have written something like My Chernobyl. " —The Vancouver Courier