‘The play’s immediate relevance, as we navigate Europe and the US’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, could hardly be clearer. This is a really bold excavation of war by a clearly talented playwright. It’s urgent and it demands to be told.’

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022

In 1999, 15 members of the Bogujevci family were massacred in their garden in Kosovo. Twenty years later, Medway-based playwright Sarah Hehir (who also writes for The Archers) began the process of writing a play about the massacre.

The play was inspired by the witness of Saranda, Jehona and Fatos Bogujevci, survivors of the massacre in their garden in Podujeva in 1999. Created by an English writer, a Polish director and a Kosovan creative associate and ensemble, the play makes powerful use of multimedia from Irish video/lighting designer Al Orange, intertwined with the musical soundscape of Kosovan composer Tomor Kuçi. The documentary was…