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As audiences enter the University of Maryland\u2019s black-box Kogod Theatre for Mikhail Durnenkov\u2019s Are We at War Yet?<\/em>, an airport flight display appears on a screen above centerstage. Flight times, destinations, and statuses flicker past while a digital clock counts down (to what?) and mysteriously starts over. Occasionally, grainy black-and-white CCTV footage appears on the screen, just long enough for me to peer into it wondering if I have been captured by the surveillance camera\u2014only to disappear before I can positively identify the images. The screen returns to the flight display and countdown timer.<\/p>\n

The flight display disappears and the words \u201cGetting Hooked\u201d appear on the screen. Three young people enter through the walk-through metal detectors at stage right and left amid flashing lights and pulsating techno beats. Sitting down in chairs that evoke airport and train station waiting areas everywhere, absorbed in their phones, each person in turn suddenly begins to comedically describe their distraction of choice\u2014alcohol, online shopping, the addictive games on their phones. The conversation soon takes a dark turn as the characters admit that \u201cin fact, getting sucked in is probably the most fun you can have these days\u201d to distract from their fear of \u201cthe people outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

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F1 (Amberley Kuo), M1 (Raymond Zajic), and M4 (Kiefer Cure) in \u2018Are We at War Yet?\u2019 Photo by Lisa Helfert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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THIRD:<\/strong> They\u2019re dangerous, the people outside \u2026 so cold \u2026 angry \u2026
\nSECOND: <\/strong>If you give them free rein, they\u2019ll just burn everything. Just a little bit more and \u2026
\nFIRST:<\/strong> They\u2019ll just release that fire inside. And everything will go up in flames. Do we need that?
\nSECOND: <\/strong>No, I don\u2019t want to wake up from the smell of smoke, I want to sleep \u2026 I don\u2019t even want to think about them, I want to get sucked in, deeper and deeper \u2026
\nFIRST:<\/strong> Why do they exist, the people outside?
\nTHIRD:<\/strong> Yeah, why? Can they be gotten rid of somehow? Could that happen?
\nFIRST:<\/strong> Where did they even come from? Those people with the thorny eyes, who are they?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mikhail Durnenkov, the 2024 Maya Brin Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland and a visiting faculty member in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, wrote the play (originally titled The War Hasn\u2019t Started Yet<\/em>) in the immediate aftermath of Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in 2014. It was first performed in Scotland, where it was commissioned by Glasgow\u2019s Oran Mor pub theater and the National Theatre of Scotland, and has since been staged in the UK, Romania, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia (prior to Durnenkov\u2019s exile for speaking out against the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022), and the United States. In an interview<\/a> with the University of Maryland\u2019s Global Editorial Staff, Durnenkov notes, \u201cOn one hand, the relevance of this play has passed because the war has already begun, on the other hand, it still remains a warning to society and it seems to me that this uneasy feeling in the world that we are seeing has not gone anywhere.\u201d While the question Are We at War Yet?<\/em> has been definitively answered in Russia, the genius of Durnenkov\u2019s play (and in UMD\u2019s production of it, directed by Yury Urnov, who most recently directed My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion<\/em><\/a> at Woolly Mammoth) lies in the ways that it raises its questions as both particular and universal.<\/p>\n

Presented as a series of 12 vignettes, each with its own separate settings, characters, and title (denoted on the screen by projection designer Timothy Kelly) Are We at War Yet?<\/em> returns again and again to its characters\u2019 sense of alienation\u2014from themselves, from one another, from family members mentioned but never seen on stage, from \u201cthe people outside,\u201d and from their sense of humanity. Several scenes feature characters referring to others\u2014or even to themselves\u2014as \u201canimals\u201d or \u201cperverts.\u201d A couple fighting over whether to flee from their home and start over or return while they still can find themselves simultaneously alienated from each other and from their homeland in \u201cAirport.\u201d A paranoid husband accusing a stranger of \u201cdoing things with my wife in your mind that I haven\u2019t done with her in eight years of marriage\u201d in \u201cThe Pool,\u201d a newsreader knowingly presenting reports that \u201cdidn\u2019t happen, but could have\u201d in \u201cThe News,\u201d and a teenage gamer who doesn\u2019t realize he is playing with real conflicts in \u201cWar Games\u201d\u2014all find themselves alienated from reality itself. Rifts appear and widen between spouses, lovers, neighbors, parents, and children. The generational divide between the young adult son who is willing to pour large sums of money into building his aging parents a country home (\u201cNew House\u201d) but unwilling to spend more than a day in their presence before jetting back off to his life in the city and his father, brooding silently in a corner before revealing his true feelings upon his son\u2019s departure, is particularly poignant.<\/p>\n

Most productions of the play to date have featured three actors playing all of the roles. UMD\u2019s production expands the cast to six, allowing for actors Amberley Kuo, Mars Burggraf, Raymond Zajic, Cy Escalera, William Nash, and Kiefer Cure to cycle in and out of scenes, change costumes (Doni Rotunno, costume designer), and rotate the metal detectors, waiting-room style chairs, and luggage of Sophia Tepermeister\u2019s sparse yet effective set to create the next scene.<\/p>\n

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TOP: M3 (William Nash) and M4 (Kiefer Cure); ABOVE: F2 (Mars Burggraf), M1 (Raymond Zajic), and M2 (Cy Escalera), in \u2018Are We at War Yet?\u2019 Photos by Lisa Helfert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dialogue in Are We at War Yet?<\/em> is filled with pithy one-liners, absurdist humor, poetic philosophical musings, and layers of social and political commentary. The play\u2019s underlying subtext of the Russia-Ukraine war turns into heavy-handed metaphor when Nash, in a frightening turn as an abusive husband, accuses his wife (Kuo) of cheating on him with a neighbor in \u201cNext Door.\u201d At times, the play risks turning the characters into simply vehicles for the text, yet the actors embody their roles with comedic presence and emotional range that drew audible laughter and gasps from the audience on opening night.<\/p>\n

While some aspects of UMD\u2019s production retain specifically Russian elements, whether in Rotunno\u2019s costumes (Kuo\u2019s headscarf and Escalera\u2019s ushanka<\/em> fur hat as the parents in \u201cNew House,\u201d contrasted with Zajic\u2019s business suit as their urbanized son) or in dialogue (Escalera, Burggraf, and Cure discussing old photos of relatives in the Siberian taiga as they sit in a dark \u201cAirport\u201d), the nameless characters and many of their settings (a doctor\u2019s waiting room, a public pool, family homes) give the scenes the feeling that they could happen anywhere.<\/p>\n

In this way, UMD\u2019s production of Are We at War Yet?<\/em> hits exactly as intended. Urnov writes in his director\u2019s note that \u201cmy only wish is that when watching the play and looking at its characters, the audience doesn\u2019t immediately think: \u2018Oh, it\u2019s about them<\/em>, it\u2019s not about us.\u2019\u201d During this election year in the United States, with conflicts both real and imagined, interpersonal, inter-communal, and international playing out in our streets and on our screens, Durnenkov\u2019s play, in the words of Vaclav Havel, \u201cstand[s]\u2026as a kind of warning to the West, revealing to its own latent tendencies.\u201d Much like the grainy CCTV footage shown as its viewers file in, Are We at War Yet?<\/em> is a disorienting mirror that UMD\u2019s American audiences may find glimpses of themselves in\u2014and we may find that it is we ourselves, not the \u201cpeople outside,\u201d who are the most dangerous of all.<\/p>\n

Running Time: 90 minutes, without intermission.<\/p>\n

Are We at War Yet?<\/em><\/strong><\/a> plays through April 26, 2024, presented by the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies performing in the Kogod Theatre at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, 8270 Alumni Drive, College Park, MD. Tickets (general public, $25; students and youth, $10) can be purchased online.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The program for Are We at War Yet?<\/em> is available online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

COVID Safety:<\/strong> Masks are encouraged but not required.<\/p>\n

Are We at War Yet?<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy Mikhail Durnenko<\/p>\n

CAST
\nF1: Amberley Kuo
\nF2: Mars Burggraf
\nM1: Raymond Zajic
\nM2: Cy Escalera
\nM3: William Nash
\nM4: Kiefer Cure
\nUnderstudies
\nF1: Amelia du Bois
\nF2: Medhanit (Medi) Desta
\nM1: Keegan Perry
\nM2: Terrence Bartlebaugh
\nM3: Hayden Polsky
\nM4: Matthew Dietrich<\/p>\n

PRODUCTION CREW
\nDirector: Yury Urnov
\nDramaturg: Hudson White
\nStage Manager: Adam Hawley
\nScenic Designer: Sophia Tepermeister
\nCostume Designer: Doni Rotunno
\nLighting Designer: Timothy Kelly
\nSound Designer: Michael Kiley
\nIntimacy Director: Teresa Spencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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