Pressing themes and circumstances / Anthologies with a documentary bent
I’m struck by the prophetic coherence of the project. In these darkening days of illiberalism and demagoguery, Kureichik’s texts are torches.
—Bryan Brown, University of Exeter, co-director of the cultural laboratory Maketank
These plays evoke the horrors of the 21st century while maintaining a belief in our capacity for hope and love.
—Valleri Robinson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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
WORKS IN THE WAKE OF INVASION
Compulsory reading for anyone trying to work through what has happened, and what will happen, in Ukraine. —Blair A. Ruble, Focus Ukraine a blog of the Kennan Institute, Wilson Center
A strikingly defiant object of hope. —Tom Sellar, Yale University, writer, curator, dramaturg
PERHAPS THE FIRST FULL-THROATED RESPONSE TO THE WAR IN KOSOVO TO BE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH
I think in years to come . . . they will be acknowledged and performed not only as good and worthwhile plays but ones that have value, like Brecht for example, as historical, political, and social documents.
— Michael Hasted, StageTalk Magazine, England
The plays in this book are proof that vibrant ideas, subversive laughter, and deeply portrayed characters cannot be silenced. — Ariel Dorfman
FORTHCOMING:
DEPARTMENT OF DREAMS:
RECENT DYSTOPIAN PLAYS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD
With work by Jeton Neziraj, Ebru Nihan Celkan, Karen Malpede, Wei Yu-Chia, and Bosco Israel Cayo Álvarez
Cover image by Biba Kayewich
FORTHCOMING:
YUGOSLAVIA BREAKING UP:
SEVEN PLAYS FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA, KOSOVO, MONTENEGRO, NORTH MACEDONIA, SERBIA, AND SLOVENIA
With works by Almir Imširević, Mate Matišić, Jeton Neziraj, Ljubomir Đurković, Goran Stefanovski, Milena Marković, and Simona Semenič
Cover paintings by Biba Kayewich | Cover design by Maxine Mills
