The Grain Store

ISBN: 9781848420458

Ukraine 1929. As Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year Plans, a closeknit rural community stands unwittingly in the path of his drive to create a thriving socialist Soviet Union. The outcome is catastrophic.

What begins for the people of the village as an amusingly alien concept rapidly becomes an unstoppable force for change. Robbed first of their land, then their religion and independence, the whole country soon becomes engulfed by a tragedy that will scar a nation for generations.

'A grim subject, but this extraordinary play by Natal'ia Vorozhbit tackles it, in Sasha Dugdale's translation, with passion, intelligence and cunning' Guardian

'A disturbing vision of socialist dogma degenerating into corrosive megalomania' London Evening Standard

First Staged: Royal Shakespeare Company, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2009