New play, AN OCEAN AWAY, in development spring 2025
"An Ocean Away," a new play by Andrei Kureichik, is a direct artistic response to the war in Ukraine.
Public Staged Readings May 16 & 17, 2025 at 7:30pm at the University of Minnesota Theatre Arts & Dance department. Tickets available spring 2025.
AN OCEAN AWAY will tell the stories of immigrants from the post-Soviet diaspora living in Minnesota who are watching the war in Ukraine from afar. Based on interviews, news media, and historical documents, Theatre Novi Most will work with playwright Andrei Kureichik, a team of actors, dramaturgs, and several Minnesota community members to create this new documentary play. Development will take place from January - May 2025 with public readings of the script presented May 16 & 17, 2025.
Theatre Novi Most is thrilled to be partnering with Andrei Kureichik on this project.
Andrei Kureichik is a Belarusian playwright, director, publicist, and civil activist. He is a 2022 World Fellow in the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. As a writer and director prior to 2020, Andrei was especially beloved for his comedies and suspense thrillers. Following the contested presidential elections and brutal aftermath in Belarus in August 2020, Andrei gained an international following as a political playwright. Forced to flee the country as a member of the Coordination Council working with perceived winner Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s transition team, Andrei leveraged his creative energy to produce the documentary play Insulted. Belarus about the 2020 presidential elections, subsequent protests, and violent crackdown by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus. The play has been translated into 29 languages and received 200 readings and performances across the globe. As a member of the Coordination Council of Belarus, he was awarded the 2020 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament.
This work is supported by grants from the MAP Fund, the Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation, and is funded in part by the Minnesota Humanities Center with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.