A woman in a pale dress arches dramatically with arms flung upward while other performers crouch and watch in blue stage light.

Jermyn Street Theatre2022

The Anarchist

The Production

Karina Wiedman’s Woven Voices Prize-winning debut play premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre as part of the 2022 Footprints Festival. The production followed Dasha, a Belarusian factory manager forced to reckon with her anarchist past amid political unrest.

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Director: Ebenezer Bamgboye
Movement Director: Adi Gortler, Sacha Plaige
Lighting Design: Catja Hamilton
Set & Costume Design: Caitlin Mawhinney
Sound Design: Tony Gayle
Photography: Steve Gregson

A red fabric-wrapped hanging bottle and bare bulb glow amid dark stage rigging and out-of-focus props.

A wide view shows a square grey stage under overhead lights, with performers spaced around its edges and one standing at centre.

A woman in a white sleeveless dress studies a small red booklet with a tense, furrowed expression.

Three performers stand shoulder to shoulder beneath a bright blue-white beam, their faces turned in different directions.

Under saturated red light, performers lie and reach across the stage between vertical red light bars.

A hooded woman smiles tearfully while cradling the head of a woman in a white dress.

A woman in black and red dominates the foreground while another in white stands deep on the blue-lit platform and others sit at the sides.

A man in a black vest exhales smoke upward in a dark close portrait.

From a high angle, three performers lean across the blue-lit platform toward a lone figure at the far end.

A man reaches up toward a suspended red object or bottle amid blue haze and hanging bulbs.

In red light, a silhouetted figure raises both arms while a woman in white stands at the edge of the lit stage.

A woman in a white dress kneels on the grey stage with hands clasped, isolated in a pool of light.

A woman in a red top and sheer black layer faces forward beneath hanging props and misty overhead light.

One performer stands over a woman stretched low across the platform under intense blue-white overhead light.

A man grips a woman's hand near her shoulder as she turns away with a distressed expression in tight stage light.

An ensemble stands in orange-red light with the central performer raising an arm as the others hold positions behind.

A woman in a pale sleeveless dress stands beside a glaring warm stage lamp, her wet hair and face catching the backlight.

At the edge of the raised platform, a woman in black and red addresses the space while two other performers wait behind her in smoky light.

A bare bulb glows beside a suspended dark bottle wrapped with red fabric in deep shadow.

Two women kneel facing each other on the grey platform, heads tipped back, with a third performer watching from the dark background.

A woman in a pale dress stands alone against darkness under a concentrated blue-white spotlight.

Three performers move through a dark blue dance formation, arms extended around a woman in a pale dress.

A seated man fills the foreground as two women align behind him on a hazy blue-lit stage.

A woman in a red top holds both hands to her head beside a bright blue vertical light and brick wall.

A wide overhead-angled view shows three performers separated across the square stage under cool blue light and hanging props.

A woman sits with legs spread on the platform while a man stands behind her in green-blue light.

A woman in a pale dress holds a dark jar or bottle straight toward the viewer against deep blue light.

A woman in white holds one dark bottle high and another outward while a performer stands in the foreground and a third watches behind.

A man standing behind a woman pulls a dark cloth taut around her shoulders in blue side light.

A man crouches in shadow at the front while a woman in white stands on the platform beside a vertical yellow light.

Three performers stand frontally in cool backlight as the central figure raises a dark bottle overhead.

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