{"product_id":"two-women-in-their-time-misha-friedman-9781620974056","title":"Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collaboration between the National Book Award-winning journalist and the prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underground theater troupe Belarus Free Theatre took New York by storm for a production of their harrowing anti-torture, anti-Putin play, \u003cem\u003eBurning Doors\u003c\/em\u003e. They were joined by Maria Alyokhina, a member of Russian punk group Pussy Riot, who made international headlines when they were imprisoned for staging an anti-Putin performance in a Moscow cathedral. The play met with enthusiastic acclaim from critics, with \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e magazine praising it as a \"smart, smoldering, physically brutal piece of theater.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTwo Women in Their Time\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning documentary photographer Misha Friedman and \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e reporter Masha Gessen take us backstage, giving us an intimate look at this fiercely creative drama troupe that cannot officially perform in its homeland, which remains a dictatorship in all but name. The result is an astonishing series of photos documenting the group's productions in New York and Gessen and Friedman's visit to Minsk to meet Svetlana Sugako and Nadezhda Brodskaya, the young lesbian couple who keep the Belarus Free Theatre running. They live a life in the borderlands--between underground and public, between the closet and being out, in a country where same-sex sexual activity is legal yet remains taboo. Their work proves that queerness will always be dangerous to autocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo Women in Their Time\u003c\/em\u003e was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Misha Friedman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620974053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620974056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Misha Friedman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991729209599,"sku":"9781620974056","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da9ccb50-77d6-41d2-8a66-438e766d6eee.jpg?v=1683311888","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/two-women-in-their-time-misha-friedman-9781620974056","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}