A new play by Andrei Kureichik
Directed by Vladimir Rovinsky and Lisa Channer

OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 9, 2025

A direct artistic response to the war in Ukraine

AN OCEAN AWAY will tell the stories of immigrants from the post-Soviet diaspora living in Minnesota who are watching the war in Ukraine from afar. Based on interviews, news media, and historical documents, Theatre Novi Most will work with playwright Andrei Kureichik, a team of actors, dramaturgs, and several Minnesota community members to create this new documentary play.

Photos from our AN OCEAN AWAY workshop in May 2025.

PERFORMANCE TIMES

Thursday, October 30 at 7:30pm

Friday, October 31 at 7:30pm

Saturday, November 1 at 7:30pm

Sunday, November 2 at 2pm

Thursday, November 6 at 7:30pm

Friday, November 7 at 7:30pm

Saturday, November 8 at 7:30pm

Sunday, November 9 at 2pm

VENUE INFO

The Center for the Performing Arts
3754 Pleasant Ave #220W, Minneapolis, MN, 55409

Although our address is on Pleasant Ave, please enter at the ADA compliant main entrance off of 38th St.

CFPA's west wing is ADA compliant on all floors, with accessible restrooms on the second. The east wing is accessible on all floors via the west wing’s lift and corridors, with an accessible restroom beside the Sunroom.

Theatre Novi Most is thrilled to be partnering with Andrei Kureichik on this project.

Andrei Kureichik is a Belarusian playwright, director, publicist, and civil activist. He is a 2022 World Fellow in the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. As a writer and director prior to 2020, Andrei was especially beloved for his comedies and suspense thrillers. Following the contested presidential elections and brutal aftermath in Belarus in August 2020, Andrei gained an international following as a political playwright. Forced to flee the country as a member of the Coordination Council working with perceived winner Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s transition team, Andrei leveraged his creative energy to produce the documentary play Insulted. Belarus about the 2020 presidential elections, subsequent protests, and violent crackdown by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus. The play has been translated into 29 languages and received 200 readings and performances across the globe. As a member of the Coordination Council of Belarus, he was awarded the 2020 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament.

This work is supported by grants from the MAP Fund, the Elmer L. & Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation, and is funded in part by the Minnesota Humanities Center with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. 

Poster design by Sofiia Rovinskaya.