Sarnatska’s work has been featured in major international newspapers and academic platforms across the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the United States.
The Guardian (UK)
“I need to do everything now”: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright
October 16, 2025
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“Sarnatska is one of Ukraine’s most powerful voices in the theatre.”
The Observer / The Guardian (UK)
“The world will remember this war not through reportage but through art”: the creatives on Ukraine’s frontline
October 27, 2024
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“Sarnatska’s work captures the surreal collision of war trauma with daily life.”
Die ZEIT (Germany)
Alina Sarnatska: “For Me, Military Service Is Feminism”
May, 2026
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“I wanted to understand how civilians become soldiers.”
“I wanted to document this process and the stories of the people around me, because I knew many of them would die.”
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
The War Turned Alina Sarnatska into a Playwright: “I Want to Make Theatre More Political”
February 20, 2026
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“I want to make theatre more political.”
“For two and a half years, Alina Sarnatska served as a combat medic on the front line near Bakhmut. When she returned to Kyiv, she became a playwright.”
Bayern2 / Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany)
Profile: Alina Sarnatska
A 24-minute radio portrait on Germany’s public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk exploring Sarnatska’s path from social work and military service to contemporary theatre.
Aftonbladet (Sweden)
At the Front Line in Ukraine: Alina Sarnatska’s Work Is About Love and Hope
February 24, 2026
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“Nastia’s cry, ‘But I am alive!’, may be more important than ever for the world to keep hearing today.”
“The fact that people become angry because of my plays is often a sign that I am on the right path.”
Dagens ETC (Sweden)
“Society in Ukraine Is More Open Than Many Think”
August 6, 2026
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“It is words and intonation, a laugh, music, memories, cries for help, fragments of life for a writer to orchestrate. Pick apart. Enlarge. Make drama out of. Writing drama is close to writing poetry. Searching for the sound.”
Cambridge University Press Blog (UK)
The Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings Continue to Evolve
March 1, 2025
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“Sarnatska is one of Ukraine’s most promising new playwrights to emerge from the war.”
Der Tagesspiegel (Germany)
From the Front to the Stage: How Ukrainian Theatre Processes the War
November 18, 2024
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“One of Sarnatska’s plays has already won several drama awards.”
Krytyka Polityczna (Poland)
The army, the theatre, patriarchy. A Ukrainian feminist has become a chronicler of wartime
September 2025
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“At the beginning of the war, I wrote to raise money. What I wrote and how many people read it literally affected whether we lived or died.”
“Today, Sarnatska is one of the most distinctive voices documenting women’s experiences of war, service, and survival in contemporary Ukraine.”
E-teatr.pl (Poland)
Bydgoszcz. Finalists of the 5th Edition of the AURORA Drama Award Announced
June 30, 2025
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“Alina Sarnatska (Ukraine) – Balans was recommended for staging in Poland and abroad.”
Wroclaw.pl (Poland)
Atypowo at Teatr na Faktach. The Program of This Year’s Festival Announced
June 11, 2025
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“Inwazja by Alina Sarnatska is a story about sex workers living in a country engulfed in war.”
Literaturhaus Stuttgart (Germany)
“Between Language, Space, and Image”: Four international voices.
November 6, 2025
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“Alina Sarnatska is a playwright, novelist, radio presenter, and war veteran. Fiona Haselgruber will read from one of her texts. An evening for all who want to experience literature anew – between language, space, and image.”
NYU Blog (Czech Republic)
Art and war
February 27, 2026
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“Unburdened by optimism, her work offers no comfort. She feels no obligation to fabricate happy endings to her stories. Instead, her plays confront audiences with the unembellished brutality of war. In a world she believes is already dying, art becomes an act of survival.”
Via TT (Sweden)
Dramaten.Doc Presents a Play from the Veterans’ Theatre in Kyiv
February 2, 2026
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“Following a staged reading of her play Military Mother, Sarnatska takes part in a public conversation with Dramaten’s Artistic Director Mattias Andersson.”
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