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The Reckoning

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Arcola Theatre · London · From 17 February

As everyone else flees, an ordinary security guard chooses to remain in a place becoming a no man’s land.

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Drama

The story

The Man from Stoyanka stays behind as his home is overtaken by war, while a woman records what happens for the history books, the courts and for humanity. Based on real events preserved in The Reckoning Project’s verified archive of witness testimony from the Russian war in Ukraine, the play examines survival and the fragile trust between witness and recorder.

In the room

The drama draws directly on documented witness testimony and is described as both playful and unsettling.

Good fit if you like

fact-based drama, stories about war and survival, witness testimony and questions about who records the truth.

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From 17 Feb 2027
Booking until 27 Feb 2027

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