CHINS UP! SHOULDERS BACK!

Staged Reading & Discussion
November 4, 2022
7:30 PM

by Ainur Karim
translated by Ellen Vayner and Slava Faybysh

In 2019, three middle-aged women grant an interview to a doctoral student studying chelnoki – educated women who worked for the state before the collapse of the USSR and turned to “marketeering” in the aftermath of the fall – and in doing so, allow us a glimpse into the personal and political realities of workers in an illicit economy. Chins Up! Shoulders Back! offers audiences slices of women’s lives at a moment of seismic change, in which their communities’ evolution, growth, and survival is tied to their own.

For Scoundrels ages 15+

Runtime:
Approximately 90 minutes