Thank you for joining DASH ARTS FOR the world premiere of
THE CAST
Marianne Oldham
Theatre includes: Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and King Lear for The Globe Theatre, A Monster Calls for Bristol Old Vic and The Old Vic, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead for The Old Vic, The Argument, Hampstead Theatre, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Chichester Festival Theatre, You Can Still Make a Killing, Southwark Playhouse, The Real Thing and The Changeling for ETT, Hamlet and The Seagull for The Factory, Design for Living and Persuasion for Salisbury Playhouse, An Inspector Calls, Novello/Wyndhams Theatre, The Years Between, The Royal & Derngate, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Market Theatre Johannesburg/Live Theatre Newcastle, Troilus and Cressida, Cheek by Jowl, At the Arcola: Meet Me at Dawn, Sons without Fathers (Platonov) and Uncle Vanya(both with The Belgrade Theatre)
Television includes: The Midwich Cuckoos, Sky, A Very English Scandal, The Living and the Dead, The Musketeers, The Crimson Field, The Impressionists and WPC56 for BBC1, Life in Squares, Ecosse Films for BBC2, Grantchester, Endeavour and Foyle’s War for ITV, Has Fallen 2 for Canal +.
Film includes: Finding Your Feet, and Absolutely Anything
Tom Godwin
Theatre includes: Professor Bernhardi, Victory Arcola, Best of Enemies Noel Coward Theatre, Tina! Aldwych Theatre, Woman in Black Fortune Theatre, Earthquakes in London NT, Beneatha’s Place, Bingo, Best of Enemies Young Vic, ENRON Chichester, Royal Court & Noel Coward Theatres, City of Glass Lyric Hammersmith/ 59 Productions, Macbeth Park Avenue Armory NYC, To Kill A Mockingbird Regent’s Park Theatre, Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare’s Globe, The Crash of the Elysium Punchdrunk/MIF, Get Santa! Royal Court, Henceforward, Arsenic & Old Lace Derby Playhouse, Elizabeth Rex Birmingham Rep, The Little Mermaid Bristol Old Vic, Secret Heart, Volpone Manchester Royal Exchange, Skylight Vaudeville Theatre
Television includes: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms S.1, Doc Martin, The English, Discovery of Witches, The Irregulars, Hendrix & Handel, Joe All Alone, Coronation Street, Quacks, Eastenders, The Hollow Crown: Henry VI, Taboo, Family Tree, Psychoville
Film includes: Savage House, Napoleon, Alice Through The Looking Glass, About Time
Olga Safronova
Olga is a graduate of the Ukrainian Film School and has trained at Drama Centre London (summer school). She has experience in physical performance with Aktorstvo theater in Kyiv, Ukraine, and since 2022, she has also been engaged in military interpreting.
Highlights include:
Theatre: Booking Clerk/Queen in Restless Choice (Aktorstvo), Widow in Rebirth (Aktorstvo), Nasie in Duel (Classic).
Film: Olesya in Daddy’s Little Scratch (53th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival selection for National and International competition), Katya in The Drill, Funny Woman in I Work At The Cemetery.
Television: Stasya in Season 3 of Dr Kovalchuk, Kateryna Motsak in Sex Insta Exams, Halyna Avramets in Material Evidence.
Simeon Kyslyi
Simeon is an Actor, Singer, Dancer, and Co-founder of Hooligan Art Community. He trained at the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television, and starred in lead roles early in his career at the Dakh Contemporary Art Center in Kyiv.
Simeon has worked on international productions across Europe (England, Germany, Spain), with notable projects including I Tell You We Must Die at the Deutsches Theater and Interbeing (2Theatre), also showcased at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
With Hooligan Art Community, Simeon developed Bunker Cabaret, which premiered at Somerset House to great critical acclaim, and has been featured at various prestigious festivals throughout Europe.
Food for Thought
As the performance ends, the conversation continues. Audiences will be invited to hear reflections from expert speakers—journalists, lawyers, and those with lived experience of the conflict.
For a full list of the speakers please click here
Food for Thought is programmed in association with Byline Times, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Programme, English PEN, UK Friends of Ukraine, Index on Censorship, Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), Public Interest Journalism Lab, The Reckoning Project and Ukrainian Institute London.
Special thanks to Nataliya Gumenyuk, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, Anna Lukanina, Daniella Peled and Peter Pomerantsev.
After care
If you’ve been affected by any of the issues in the play, there is a care pack below where you can access information, resources, and details of organisations that can help.
Support for the reckoning
If you were moved by The Reckoning and want to see its impact reach far and wide - with a tour across the UK, America, and Ukraine - please help us reach our £25,000 fundraising goal. Every donation, big or small, brings us closer to sharing this powerful story with the world.
Thank you to the generous partners and donors who have made The Reckoning possible so far: The Reckoning Project, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Award from the University of Cambridge, Public Interest Journalism Lab, Open Society Foundations, Nick Tranter in the name of 4Ukraine Humanitarian Aid, Fritt Ord Foundation, Goethe-Institut in Exile, Goethe-Institut London, SAV Group, The Golsoncott Foundation, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, and individual giving.
Strong Roots by Olia Hercules
The ‘Ukrainian Summer Salad’ that featured in The Reckoning was kindly shared with us by Olia Hercules and is taken from her new book Strong Roots - A Ukrainian Family Story through War, Exile and Hope.
You can pre-order the book on her website HERE
And it is on sale in all good bookstores and online retailers from the 19th of June 2025.
FEEDBACK FOR tHE rECKONING
Complete our feedback form and enter your email for a chance to win a free copy of Strong Roots by Olia Hercules in our prize draw.
Podcasts on The Reckoning
Blog Posts on The Reckoning
This month Dash’s brand new production, The Reckoning, opens at The Arcola Theatre in Dalston. Co-Writer and Director Josephine Burton gives you a taste of what to expect from this vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth and those who must live with it.