Royal Court theatre, London Ukrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky’s book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts – signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the audience A town under military occupation refuses to buckle under. After a young deaf boy is shot while watching a puppet show, the citizens of Vasenka fall deaf themselves: refusing to speak, respond, even to hear military orders. The dramatic, book-length poem from 2019 by Ukrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky becomes an elaborately imagined theatrical fable from Dublin’s Dead Centre: not consoling, sometimes laborious, always demanding vigilance.