Insulted. Belarus(sia)
Insulted. Belarus(sia)

Summary/Abstract: The drama of Andrei Kureichik, the renowned Belarusian playwright, entitled Insulted. Belarus(sia), is inspired by the first months and the wavering events of the demonstrations which flared up in August 2020. The figures who get the word one after the other are based on real personality types, through which the author - by the multiplicity of voices and points of view - draws the net of causes and motivations which led to the manifestation of the social discontent and to the trespasses of the representatives of the power, given that in Kureichik’s drama one can hear and see both those suffering because of the ruling power and those who take advantage of the situation. The drama of Kureichik is at the same time a contemplation on the nature of the revolutions: what differentiates the Belarusian manifestations from the ones held in Prague in 1968, in Russia in 1991, or the ones held in Ukraine? The drama was staged as reader’s theatre in several languages in the context of an international event organized under the aegis of solidarity, and it can be read in the present issue of our journal translated by Éva Patkó, the lyrics being translated by Péter Demény.

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