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The Last Word

Event poster titled “The Last Word,” featuring an illustration of a glass courtroom cage with a microphone symbol inside. A photo of speaker Anna Narinskaya appears below the image with a brief bio. Event details read: February 13, 3:00–5:00 PM, North Quad Room 2135, University of Michigan LSA Slavic Languages and Literatures.Open to Everyone

Paradoxically, the glass box in Russian courts became one of the last places for free speech. People persecuted for their political views used this opportunity to bear witness to injustice. Anna Narinskaya explores this phenomenon and her work as dramaturg for the play ‘The Last Word,’ based on these final statements.

About Anna Narinskaya
Anna is a journalist, playwright, and activist from Moscow, who since 2022 has been living in Berlin, publishing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and collaborating with German theaters. She is at the University of Michigan as a fellow of Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.