{"product_id":"the-insulted-plays-by-andrei-kureichik","title":"The Insulted Plays By Andrei Kureichik","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Andrei Kureichik ingeniously manages to seize the reader or spectator of his plays by both brain and  heart, intellect and emotion. Through his kaleidoscopic, decentered, at times plotless, at times funny,  view of political turmoil, Kureichik magnifies the deep, ongoing persistence of the Belarusian and  Russian people against autocracy and corruption. Existential and engrossing, the plays in this volume range from testimony of real political prisoners to profound science fiction. They urgently need to be read and staged in our world today\" — Alisa Ballard Lin, The Ohio State University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Insulted Plays\u003c\/em\u003e make up a tetralogy that begins in a state of strife in the Russia of 2017, goes on to inhabit the vortex of a transformational Belarus, and ends at an Archimedean point to the planet Earth itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike an “all against all,”\u003cem\u003e Insulted. Russia \u003c\/em\u003etracks the sharp divisions in society — a dissevering that is fated for clashes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning on election night, 2020, \u003cem\u003eInsulted. Belarus\u003c\/em\u003e dramatises the birthing of a body politic and the vicious, abortive intervention in response to it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eVoices of the New Belarus\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike a microcosm suspended in the cosmos, the space capsule of\u003cem\u003e Insulted. Planet \u003c\/em\u003ehouses an international crew that is riven by historical tensions and pitched by a sudden war on Earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough animated by acts that strike like a slap in the face of our humanity, \u003cem\u003eThe Insulted Plays\u003c\/em\u003e direct us on — to decency, hope, fellow-feeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by\u003cstrong\u003e John Freedman \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin House Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57281624015226,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/3406\/3009\/files\/cover_revised.webp?v=1789730209","url":"https:\/\/shop.pushkinhouse.org\/products\/the-insulted-plays-by-andrei-kureichik","provider":"Pushkin House Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}