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<span class="x_contentpasted0">Discussion of the play <a href="https://www.critical-stages.org/26/crime-alwaysarmukraine/" data-auth="NotApplicable" title=" https://www.critical-stages.org/26/crime-alwaysarmukraine/ " data-loopstyle="link">
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<span class="x_contentpasted0"><b><span style="color:black">[Asya Voloshina]/Ester Bol</span></b></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; background:white"> </span></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; background:white">Born in Rostov-on-Don in 1985, Asya Voloshina is a recipient of many prestigious literary and theatre awards, with more than thirty productions in Russia,
Poland, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, and Uruguay. When Asya left Russia (in March 2022), she took a new pen-name, Ester Bol. After the victory of Ukraine she plans to keep only this name. Asya studied journalism at The Institute of Journalism
and Literature in Moscow (2007) and later theatre history and dramaturgy at The Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in St Petersburg. She holds MA in Dramaturgy (2010-2013), the class of Natalia Skorokhod. Her book of four plays about Russia – its tyranny
and lack of freedom – </span></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">Gibnet khor</span></i></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; background:white">. </span></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">Chetyre
piesy o Rossii / The Chorus Perishes</span></i></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; background:white">. </span></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">Four
Plays about Russia</span></i></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; background:white"> (STP, Seans, 2018) – presents Asya Voloshina as one of the most politically outspoken Russian playwrights, who finds
it impossible to live in Russia today, in the atmosphere of fear and hatred that can be “nurturing for writing but sickening for people ” (Voloshina in Maslakov 2018). During the summer of 2022, Asya wrote a new play </span></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">Crime/#AlwaysArmUkraine</span></i></span><span class="x_contentpasted0"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black; background:white">,
which takes place on the iPhone of the major character and is made up of the protagonist’s correspondence and the news feeds mostly posted on the Ukrainian telegram channels.</span></span><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="background:white; text-align:start"><span lang="FR" style="color:#201F1E">Professeure , Département de théâtre</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#201F1E"></span></p>
<p style="background:white; text-align:start"><span style="color:#201F1E">135 S</span><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#201F1E">éraphin-Marion</span><span style="color:#201F1E">, uOttawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#201F1E"></span></p>
<p style="background:white; text-align:start"><span style="color:#201F1E"><a href="http://www.critical-stages.org/19/the-essay-section-la-section-des-essais/" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="http://www.critical-stages.org/19/the-essay-section-la-section-des-essais/" data-loopstyle="link"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; background:white">Editor.
Critical Stages/Scènes critiques</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#201F1E"></span></p>
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<p style="background:white; text-align:start"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#201F1E">Recent publications:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#201F1E"></span></p>
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2022. Patrick O'Neil Award, Special Mention: </span></a><a href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030399146" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030399146" data-loopstyle="link"><span style="color:#0C64C0">Migration and
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Julia Listengarten, Yana Meerzon (Methuen Drama, 2021)</span></a></span></p>
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