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Orwell Day 2022

Andrei Kureichik

Voices for Freedom

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Journalist and playwright Andrei Kureichik talks with writer Marta Rebón about the repression and political persecution of Aleksandr Lukashenko's regime following the dramatized reading of his play Voices of New Belarus.

Belarusian playwright Andrei Kureichik wanted to illuminate the complexity and rawness of the political situation in his country through the silenced words of the testimonies of the repressive drift of the Lukashenko regime after the 2020 elections. This is the exercise carried out in his documentary theater piece Voices of New Belarus, which illustrates a situation still in force today and which has led to the imprisonment of thousands of people, numerous complaints of human rights violations, as well as the exile of a large part of the opposition movement to the regime, including Kureichik himself. In this session, the playwright talks with writer and translator Marta Rebón.

The dramatized reading of Voices of New Belarus (translated into Catalan by Elisabet Ràfols) is an adaptation by director and playwright Ricard Soler Mallol, played by Pepo Blasco and Gemma Martínez.

This activity is a collaboration with the collective Artist at Risk within the framework of Artists at Risk (AR) – A European Network of Safe Havens (AR-ENSH) project, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Participants: Andrei Kureichik, Marta Rebón, Ricard Soler Mallol

This activity is part of Orwell Day 2022, Orwell Day

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Andrei Kureichik

Voices for Freedom

Journalist and playwright Andrei Kureichik talks with writer Marta Rebón about the repression and political persecution of Aleksandr Lukashenko's regime following the dramatized reading of his play Voices of New Belarus.

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