Time of Women

Time of Women tells the story of three women with unflinching dedication to the truth at the forefront of the movement for a democratic Belarus. Iryna Khalip, a PEN Pinter Prize-winning journalist, Natalya Radina, editor of the pro-human rights news site Charter 97, and political activist Nasta Palazhanka were all imprisoned at the time of the fraudulent presidential elections of 2010. Time of Women dramatizes their ordeal.

Belarus Free Theatre was founded in 2005 in response to the censorship of freedom of expression in Belarus. As some of the most outspoken critics of Belarus’ repressive regime, the founding members had to be smuggled out of the country and have been in exile as political refugees in the United Kingdom since 2011. The cast remains in Minsk and continues to create theater underground, directed over Skype.

Note: Time of Women is performed in Russian with English supertitles.