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Necessity as the Mother of Invention

A Personal Account of Creating Worldwide Play Projects in Support of Belarus and Ukraine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2025

John Freedman
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Abstract

The failed 2020 revolution in Belarus and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 served as catalysts for the creation of the Insulted. Belarus Worldwide Readings Project based on a play by Andrei Kureichik. The project provided the material for hundreds of performances in over 30 countries, while dozens of texts by members of Kyiv’s Theatre of Playwrights formed the core of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings, a similar project that generated over 660 performances, refuting Russian president Vladimir Putin’s claim that Ukrainian culture does not exist.

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TDR , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , March 2025 , pp. 4 - 20
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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