Wednesday, September 18, 2024
The Last Word: ‘painfully poignant’ play gives a voice to women silenced by Russia’s legal system
theconversation.com: Anna Narinskaya’s play The Last Word, which has transferred to London’s Marylebone Theatre after its premiere in Berlin in 2022, gives voice to nine women who have fallen foul of the Russian legal system in recent years.
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The Last Word is a perfect example of how theatre can be used to lift up the voices around us and fight for change for the better. It’s heartbreaking to hear about all of these different women’s stories about how the state believes they wronged them by protesting or fighting for their freedoms. This play seems like one that would be heartbreakingly moving to watch and would create an atmosphere in the room that I would hope would propel the audience to go out and continue to fight for change. It’s interesting how this show is played by 1 woman, even though there are a multitude of many different characters who are telling their stories behind this glass box. The title of the show is poetic and shows how even though these women are being charged and found guilty for crimes that seem small to us, they still are able to have the last word in the justice system, and they go out fighting for a better way.
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