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Natalia Jakubowa writes about the Eiswind/Hideg szelek project by Árpád Schilling and Éva Zabezsinszkij (Burgtheater in Vienna, premiere: 25.05.2016). Jakubowa describes the performance’s structure, focusing on the expression of the most important theme: the complexities of Austro-Hungarian relations. The crucial female perspective in Eiswind/Hideg links this performance with Natalia Worozhbyt’s dramatic monologue Wo ist Osten? Monologue No. 1 / "де схід", shown in the framework of the Vienna Humanities Festival. A byproduct of Worozhbyt’s work on this documentary play about the Donetsk airport was an intimate record of the author’s feelings for a military leader she met there. Natalia Jakubowa calls Schilling’s play and the Ukrainian’s dramatic monologue important voices in problematizing how the East functions in the Western European discourse.