Ukrainian New Drama and Women in War Time is a practice-based research project that explores the role of women in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. At its centre are two documentary short plays commissioned for the project, written by Ukrainian playwrights who have been displaced since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The first play, Narrating the War by Anastasiia Kosodii, is a devastating and poetic text in which the author reflects on her experience as a refugee in Germany and her attempts to speak the story of her country in such a way as to elicit the international solidarity she says as necessary to put an end to Russian aggression. The second text, A Marathon of Russian Roulette by Kateryna Penkova, stages a verbatim interview with a woman, a mother, who survived the siege of Mariupol while serving as a volunteer nurse in an improvised trauma unit in the basement of a hospital while bombs rained down on the city for months overhead. Together these two plays offer international audiences unprecedented insight into the experiences of individuals whose lives continue to be upended by this war.