Masakr Elsinor: Your Silence Will Not Protect You

A staged concert bringing courtroom speeches of contemporary Russian prisoners of conscience to the stage - those convicted for YouTube, accused of TikTok terrorism, dissidents, and reluctantly engaged artists. The core of the production consists of Czech translations of final court speeches from two dozen cases in recent years, contained in the book "(Ne)poslední slova." Journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, activists, professors, students, children - in Russia perpetrators and criminals given by the court only a tiny breath of air. In a transparent cage, but somehow without restraint, they can say what they truly think.

A glass cage, outlines of the accused, prosecutor files, legal paragraphs, the harsh language of the honorable court. Fear of a barrier greater than what lies behind it. Tikkun olam is the repair of the world. Vladimir Kara-Murza cannot stand, Olga Misik clutches a whistle, Ingush elder Malsag Uzhakhov sees a monster thick, predatory, oversized and many-headed, some official leaned too far out a window, and Alexei Navalny quotes from the Bible: "This is your hour, the power of darkness."

The production features voices: Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Malsag Uzhakhov, Armen Aramyan, Dmitry Ivanov, Maria Ponomarenko, Viktor Filinkov, Vasily Kuksov, Alla Gutnikova, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Navalny, Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Metyolkin, Maria Dubovik, Andrei Novashov, Nikita Uvarov, Julie Galyamina, Olga Misik, Andrei Pivovarov, and Yegor Zhukov. The production also includes excerpts from a letter about Olga Kiriyenko's restored citizenship, information about the electrocution torture of Ilya Shakursky and Dmitry Pchelintsev, and cases of minors Ani Zhuravlyova, Yegor Starshinov, Kirill Smirnov, and Pavel Kushnir. Some of them are free today (mostly abroad), some remain in prison, and some are no longer alive.

From the Russian original "Neposledniye slova" (Freedom Letters publishing house, 2023), translated by: Karolína Juráková, Hana Kosáková, Olga Pavlova, Zuzana Špinková, Jan Chalupník, Osip Dantev, Kryštof Neřold, and Tim Postovit. Screenplay: Ondřej Novotný. Dramaturgy: Marina Feltlová. Music: Tomáš Vtípil, Petr Míka. DJing: Tomáš Soldá.