The Insulted Plays
Autor Andrei Kureichik Traducere de John Freedmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 dec 2025
Like an “all against all,” Insulted. Russia tracks the sharp divisions in society — a dissevering that is fated for clashes.
Beginning on election night, 2020, Insulted. Belarus dramatizes the birthing of a body politic and the vicious, abortive intervention in response to it.
The Voices of the New Belarus resound as the groundswell of the nation: a polyvocal, verbatim chorus that attests to the blood-stained aftermath of widespread protests. Their voices form a pillar of every kind of strength.
Like a microcosm suspended in the cosmos, the space capsule of Insulted. Planet houses an international crew that is riven by historical tensions and pitched by a sudden war on Earth.
Although animated by acts that strike like a slap in the face of our humanity, The Insulted Plays direct us on — to decency, hope, fellow-feeling.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781942281320
ISBN-10: 1942281323
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 178 x 152 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Laertes
Colecția Egret
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1942281323
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 178 x 152 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Laertes
Colecția Egret
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
From exile, Kureichik wrote and disseminated his best-known play, InsultedBelarus, an incendiary work that dramatized the real-life events of the2020 protests with horrifying clarity and arresting urgency. In return for hisbravery, Kureichik met with a flurry of international attention and, as herecalls, “a wave of solidarity that cannot even be described.” His play, Voicesof the New Belarus, a verbatim play rendering the testimonies of 17different victims of state torture and arrests, was greeted with similar globalacclaim in 2022. —Antonia Langford and Heather Magee, The Moscow Times
Andrei Kureichik’s bold, polyvocal theatricalassemblages capture the frenetic fracturing of the myths and promises of ournew millennia. Whether through invented or verbatim speech, he captures the waythe bombastic political rhetoric seeps into the everyday language of his vastrange of characters and archetypes. With particular attention on the recentrenewal of extreme political oppression in Russia and Belarus, Kureichik deftlystretches the limits of scope and scale to capture the invisible threads thatunite us. By turns caustic and sarcastic, witty and ironic, and shockinglydirect, these plays evoke the horrors of the 21st century whilemaintaining a belief in our capacity for hope and love. —Valleri Robinson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Andrei Kureichik ingeniously manages to seize the reader or spectator ofhis plays by both brain and heart, intellect and emotion. Through hiskaleidoscopic, decentered, at times plotless, at times funny, view of politicalturmoil, Kureichik magnifies the deep, ongoing persistence of the Belarusianand Russian people against autocracy and corruption. Existential andengrossing, the plays in this volume range from testimony of real politicalprisoners to profound science fiction. They urgently need to be read and stagedin our world today. —Alisa Ballard Lin, the Ohio University
I’m struck by the prophetic coherence of the project. Inthese darkening days of illiberalism and demagoguery, Kureichik’s texts aretorches, shining a sometimes flickering, a sometimes searing light on thebewildering, painful, and utterly intimate experience of living for and withina community of resistance. Kureichik reminds us of the struggle: “How can youimprison an entire nation?” This question is now pertinent well beyond theinitial context of Belarus and informs the thinking of anyone who has their eyeon the current geopolitical chessboard. —Bryan Brown, University of Exeter,co-director of the cultural laboratory Maketank
Andrei Kureichik’s bold, polyvocal theatricalassemblages capture the frenetic fracturing of the myths and promises of ournew millennia. Whether through invented or verbatim speech, he captures the waythe bombastic political rhetoric seeps into the everyday language of his vastrange of characters and archetypes. With particular attention on the recentrenewal of extreme political oppression in Russia and Belarus, Kureichik deftlystretches the limits of scope and scale to capture the invisible threads thatunite us. By turns caustic and sarcastic, witty and ironic, and shockinglydirect, these plays evoke the horrors of the 21st century whilemaintaining a belief in our capacity for hope and love. —Valleri Robinson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
Andrei Kureichik ingeniously manages to seize the reader or spectator ofhis plays by both brain and heart, intellect and emotion. Through hiskaleidoscopic, decentered, at times plotless, at times funny, view of politicalturmoil, Kureichik magnifies the deep, ongoing persistence of the Belarusianand Russian people against autocracy and corruption. Existential andengrossing, the plays in this volume range from testimony of real politicalprisoners to profound science fiction. They urgently need to be read and stagedin our world today. —Alisa Ballard Lin, the Ohio University
I’m struck by the prophetic coherence of the project. Inthese darkening days of illiberalism and demagoguery, Kureichik’s texts aretorches, shining a sometimes flickering, a sometimes searing light on thebewildering, painful, and utterly intimate experience of living for and withina community of resistance. Kureichik reminds us of the struggle: “How can youimprison an entire nation?” This question is now pertinent well beyond theinitial context of Belarus and informs the thinking of anyone who has their eyeon the current geopolitical chessboard. —Bryan Brown, University of Exeter,co-director of the cultural laboratory Maketank