Commissioned Pieces
The Letter - Group 1
In a remote Communist-era village, Marc, a former political prisoner and social outcast, seeks justice in a system that has already condemned him. Branded an ‘enemy of the people’ for absurd reasons, he asks a young schoolteacher to write a desperate plea to the authorities for a dignified home. But as he obsessively clings to the letter—never daring to send it—his struggle shifts from survival to something more profound: the right to read his own story. In a world where the state controls words, narratives, and destinies, Marc’s quiet rebellion is not in protest—but in literacy, his final act of defiance against a system that sought to erase him. Yet beneath his fight for recognition lies a deeper, universal pain—regret that no regime can erase, a quiet voice of self-doubt and reflection that resides within us all, regardless of time or place.
Kurbas - Group 2
Les Kurbas – an intellectual, artist, actor, philosopher, and organiser – is considered the most innovative theatre director of the 20th century. He created his own modern, experimental theatrical system dominated by symbols, metaphors, and creativity, raising a new generation of Ukrainian actors and directors.
Many streets and art centres bear his name, yet Kurbas is not known and celebrated enough as most of his merits have been overshadowed by the Russian Avant-Garde.
War Poet - Group 3
This is a story about Maksym Krystov, a soldier who defends Ukraine since 2014. He was a volunteer who worked with kids a lot and who is also a poet who had just begun his career. After a time away from fighting Maksym joined the army again when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, where he found himself accompanied by a cat. This story follows Maksym’s life in the war with the cat as he follows his dream of being a poet. It ends with his death in January 2024. His book “Poems from the gunhole” has been published in 1500 copies. After his death it sold out in one day. He dreamed about the cooperation with The New York Times or at least Kyiv Post. Kyiv Post and The New York Times wrote about Maksym Kryvtsov.
Hotel Freedom - Group 4
The Hotel Freedom is an original idea/play by Sari Horvath. It’s based on her own social research and previous theatre works. It essentially creates an original artistic universe where human nature and relationships can be expressed in a symbolic and realistic way through surreal elements and fantasy.
The Hotel Freedom is a coming-of-age story where finding and accepting ourselves and our past lead to finding and discovering love. The focus is on the topic of how you can create a safe place for yourself in your soul to survive the reailty’s challenges and problems. The guests at the hotel have complaints about the rooms, which Tono is constantly trying to escape from. When Tono meets Dale, he immediately falls in love with her, but Dale knows that Norma is in love with Tono.
Figs and Rose Jam - Group 5
The audio drama revolves around a woman in the search for her roots. Together with her companion, she wants to visit her grandfather’s oriental town and discovers the story of a sunken island, although it is neither a mythical land-covered Troy nor the legend of a lost Atlantis. This is the island of Ada Kaleh, which was covered by water in the recent past. Due to the dam built on the Danube river, the water level rose so much that the island was completely covered. Its population was scattered. Some died of grief, many continued to live without a chance to return to their native land. In search of her ancestors and roots, the main character travels and meets people who had contact with Ada Kaleh and gets to know this unknown world, which many refer to as “the lost paradise”.
She kept a diary - Group 6
Three extraordinary women show a pioneering spirit that inspires a nation. A war hero in Georgia, an activist in Albania and an aviator in Northern Ireland confront assumptions about the limitations of their sex by pushing the boundaries of science, politics and human bravery. The true stories of Maro Makashvili, Musine Kokalari and Lilian Bland, related by them, based on their writing – fragmented memoirs that make history come alive.
United by a refusal to accept the status quo, these individuals all made a decisive impact on their societies, just by being themselves.
Traduzione, The Place you were Looking For - Group 7
The new U.S. ambassador to Italy, who is actually a high-ranking intelligence operative, finds himself in Rome amidst the tense climate surrounding the kidnapping of Christian Democracy leader Aldo Moro by the far-left paramilitary group, the Red Brigades. Mr. Fischer is tasked with conducting an independent and secret investigation. The narrative follows him over the course of a day, marked by frequent phone calls with his wife Mia, institutional duties, and steps in his covert inquiry. After handling various matters, Mr. Fischer attends an unspecified “meeting.” As it unfolds, we learn that this meeting is, in fact, a séance. Organized by politicians, high-ranking military officials, and other private figures belonging to a secret Masonic-style lodge, the séance employs a medium to seek the intercession of the spirit world, in order to uncover Moro’s location.
Blood Bunnies - Group 8
Blood Bunnies is an original drama which gets its inspiration from the Albanian Kanun, a text describing tribal laws including a detailed guide to Blood Feuds. The drama takes this notion of codes and conduct to a bizarre level as two clans of rabbits are set in conflict with each other with only a mysterious codex to guide them.
In their innocence, both clans eagerly follow the procedures contained in the Book of Blood but instead of a resolution, their world descends into a gory chaos. The story is a thesis on cultural indoctrination as witnessed by a curious fox who watches the bunnies change in nature from prey to predator revealing how culture can be weaponised to secure and maintain power for the elite.
My Brilliant Friend - Group 9
It is an adaptation of the novel My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. It’s about two girls in Naples in the 1950’s and the different stages in their lives.
My inspiration was purely based on the first two novels of the My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante saga. I gathered my classmates and we recorded this in a studio.
As a Sign of Love - Group 10
After the 1992-1993 war in Abkhazia, 300,000 people had to leave their homes and continue living in different regions of Georgia. A large part of them moved to places unsuitable for normal life, such as buildings of schools, hotels, hospitals, etc. The territory of Abkhazia is still occupied by Russia.
The radio play “Sign of Love” tells the story of the current residents of the hotel “Georgia”
(Sakartvelo) , a building in the heart of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The stories clearly preserved in the author’s memories revolve around the daily life of her elderly neighbors and depict one of the New Year periods of the 2010s.