Bad Roads

Matt Wilde is the Course Leader of the MFA Professional Acting course at LAMDA and is an award-winning Theatre & Film Director. 

He has directed at some of the UK’s leading theatres including the Royal Court London, National Theatre London, Almeida, Old Vic, Soho, Unicorn Theatre, Liverpool Everyman, Edinburgh Traverse and for leading companies including National Theatre, KSF, Out of Joint, Actors Touring Company, Old Vic New Voices, Middle Eastern Theatre Academy and Splendid Productions. His work has taken him to NYC: Broadway, UAE, Europe, Brazil and Mexico.

Matt is also a former Associate Director of the National Theatre Studio and Out of Joint Theatre Company.

Natal'ya Vorozhbit is a Ukrainian playwright and screenwriter who graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 2000. She has also studied at the International Writers Program.

With German director Georg Zheno, she founded the Theater of the Displaced, where refugees from Donbas can tell their stories. She wrote the screenplay for the feature film Cyborgs about the defense of Sergei Prokoviev Airport near Donetsk, where Ukrainian soldiers fought for 242 days against separatists. Vorozhbit traveled through the war zone for four months and spoke with those involved. The war situation in Ukraine is a frequent theme in her work.

She has previously collaborated with the Royal Court Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company.

This play contains adult themes; very strong language which some may find offensive; nudity; scenes of a sexual nature, scenes of sexual assault & abuse, scenes of threat & violence. References to animal cruelty, representations & descriptions of PTSD, mental health disorders, sexism, misogyny, guns, drug use and suicide, and blood. Anti-Semitic slurs, homophobic views and slurs. References to war, death, psychological, emotional and physical abuse, self-harm and pregnancy, grooming underage girls/child abuse.

Please also be aware that this play is set in Ukraine at a time of war, and whilst it is not based on or responding to the current conflict in any way, it could be triggering for anyone impacted by current events.