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UKRAINIAN ACTOR TURNED MILITARY MEDIC DRAWS LESSONS FROM REAL-LIFE COMBAT

by Robert Shuman

(Kateryna Bankova's and Will Tizard's report appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3/12.) Petro Konoplya, a celebrated Ukrainian stage and film actor, once just played soldiers onscreen. Now, after treating wounded fighters as a medic in scores of tense frontline situations, he confesses, "Today, I'd play it differently." Visit Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:48pm on March 13, 2024