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Conversations Among the Kosach Family on Holy Saturday, 1910

Kyiv. April 30, 1910.

Lesya Ukrainka (Kosach)  has spent the winter in Egypt for her health, and is on her way home to the Caucasus and her husband.  In her mother’s apartment, Lesya spends an evening  in intimate conversation with two of her sisters, her mother, her sister-in-law and brother-in-law. Together they share stories written and heard, songs recorded, experiences of faraway places and distant times, the grief of the death of the father, the loss of their home, family troubles, confusions and fears about a world that has become unwelcoming, and threatening. Based upon real people and historical fact, More Beauty Than Sorrow is a play — about a world of many sorrows, but wherealso lies the deeper beauty of family, art, and daily human life.