Crimea 5am

Crimea 5am brings together the voices of extraordinary women,
bound together by the Russian persecution of Crimean Tatars in
2014. In this episode, Artistic Director Josephine Burton looks
back on how Dash Arts brought together a cast of actors,
activists and journalists to stage this unique piece of verbatim
theatre in London during January 2023.


Through personal stories and testimonies of love and struggle in
Crimea today, and combining victim and activist interviews,
Crimea 5am highlights the stories of 10 political prisoners and
their families. The piece celebrates the sheer determination and
activism within this oppressed community, the bravery of the
prisoners in documenting abuses, and its defiant women holding
the ravaged community together.


Since  2014, civil activists and in particular
representatives of the indigenous people of the Crimean
peninsula, Crimean Tatars, have been persecuted by Russian
occupying forces. Obscured by a news blackout, we know little of
these events, little of the prisoners themselves, their
families  and life in Crimea under occupation. 


In this episode, our Artistic Director Josephine Burton and
Podcast Producer Marie Horner listen to archive clips of the
performance as well as journalists, academics, activists and the
cast. We hear from:





Dr Rory Finnin, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies,
University of Cambridge

Maria Romanenko, Ukrainian journalist and Crimea 5am cast
member

Anastasiia Kosodii, playwright and co-writer of Crimea 5am

Natalya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist and filmmaker 

Alexandra Hall Hall, former British Ambassador to Georgia and
Crimea 5am cast member 






Music: Ey, Güzel Qırım sung by the cast from Crimea 5am


Crimea 5am was produced at The Kiln in January 2023 as part of
the British Council and the  Ukrainian Institute UK/Ukraine
Season of Culture. The original production of Crimea 5аm was
initiated by the Ukrainian Institute and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Ukraine as part of the Crimea Platform. The original
performance was directed by Dmytro Kostiumynskyi and produced by
Dollmen.


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