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Ukraine 1929. As Stalin launches the first of his Five-Year Plans, a close-knit 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.
Natalia Vorozhbit's plays have been staged in Moscow and by the National Theatre of Latvia, and adapted for the screen. Her short play The Khomenko Family Chronicles was produced at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
The Grain Store was commissioned and premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon.
