It started as a research project on Russians living with disabilities – conducted by a scholar who didn’t know the Russian word for “disability.” (At least not at first.)
Now it’s a play, with seven monologues “drawn nearly verbatim” from interviews about the experience of living with disability in the post-Soviet, post-Communist world.
It’s called “I Was Never Alone.” Written by Cassandra Hartblay (who received her Ph.D. in anthropology from UNC last year) and directed by UNC artist-in-residence Joseph Megel with a mixed cast of able-bodied and disabled actors, the play will be performed this Friday and Saturday, February 5 and 6, in Swain Studio 6 with shows at 7 pm Friday and 2 pm Saturday. (The play is free, but donations will be accepted at the door.)
Hartblay and Megel joined WCHL’s Aaron Keck on air this week to discuss the play.
Learn more about “I Was Never Alone” here.
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