Body in Progress

Hanna Komar

Sep 2025 · Skaryna Press

About this ebook

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.

This edition includes the original English text and a Belarusian translation. The play premiered at Theatre Deli, London, as part of the 2024 Voila! Theatre Festival.

Паэтка блукае па вуліцах Лондана. Яе пераследуе гвалт, перажыты на Радзіме. Яна змагаецца з траўмай, імкнецца зноў адчуць сябе дома ва ўласным целе. Гісторыя Ганны Комар — гэта шчырае, неўпрыгожанае сведчанне пра выжыванне, імкненне да ацалення і пошук прыналежнасці сярод крохкай свабоды выгнання. Двухмоўнае выданне: па-ангельску і па-беларуску. Прэм'ера п'еса адбылася падчас фестывалю Voila! у 2024 г.

About the author

About the author

Hanna Komar is an award-winning Belarusian author and activist, the recipient of the Freedom of Speech 2020 Prize from the Norwegian Writers Association. She is the author of five poetry collections 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.