One Summer in Luka

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Luka, Sumy Oblast, north-east Ukraine, 1993. Vanya and Misha, two childhood friends then in their twenties, are hosting a group of Westerners on exchange. When they both fall in love with the same woman, their friendship is tested to the limit. Slowly the underlying theme emerges: issues of identity, (Russian/Ukrainian) seemingly unimportant at the time. In Viv Groskop's new play, we move between the emotional events of that summer of 1993 and the political events of 2022, the outbreak of war, and 2023, the anniversary of war, as Nikki - who lived with Vanya’s family as an exchange student in 1993 - tries to trace her two friends thirty years on and find out what has become of them and if they are safe. Nikki ..... Emma Fielding Sarah ..... Jane Slavin Raisa ..... Barbara Flynn Vanya ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt Misha ..... Tom Glenister Darya ..... Viv Groskop Producer/Director: Eoin O’Callaghan A Big Fish Radio production