Body in Progress

London. A young woman in exile. She is free. She is safe. Safe, maybe, from the brutal political regime which imprisoned her merely for protesting. But what lingers is the violence and intimidation she lived through. Her body and psyche have dissociated in self-defence. PTSD. Now, walking through London, riding the Tube to unfamiliar places, she's trying to stitch herself back together, despite all the terrible memories which burst into her mind.
The play premiered at Theatre Deli, London, as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival on 8 & 9 November 2024.

HANNA KOMAR is an award-winning Belarusian author and activist, the recipient of the Freedom of Speech 2020 Prize from theNorwegian Writers Association. She is the author of five poetry collections, including Ribwort (3TimesRebel, 2023), and a non-fiction account of her incarceration for peaceful protest in Belarus, forthcoming in English from Skaryna Press. Hanna portrayed herself in the verbatim play The People Woke Up: 2020 Revolution in Belarus (Ice&Fire), which premiered in Edinburgh in September 2022. Body in Progress marked Hanna's debut as a playwright.