VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL

A Readers Theater Play Based On the Reflections of Its Survivors

Adapted by Spencer Smith

from “Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster”
by Svetlana Alexievich*
Narrated by Madeline Kunin
Read by Robert Belenky, Mary Hooper, Roman Kokodyniak,
Ben Scotch, Mary Wheeler, Elizabeth Wilcox and Lea Wood

Friday, JanUARY 11 - 7:30 pm

The Firehouse Gallery, 135 Church St, Burlington
As we consider the future of the Vermont Yankee it is relevant to remember that on April 26,
1986, the worst non-military nuclear disaster in history occurred in Chernobyl, Ukraine. The
fall-out from that disaster traveled world-wide and radiated the milk of Vermont cows.
Actual words of Chernobyl survivors -- nuclear scientists, widows of soldiers who contained the
fire, parents of children affected -- will be spoken. These testimonies were collected by
Ukrainian journalist, Svetlana Alexievich for her book, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History
of a Nuclear Disaster.
After the one-hour performance we will discuss the meaning of Chernobyl for Vermont today.
Sponsored by
Peace and Justice Center; Peace, Justice and Earthcare Committee of Burlington Friends
Meeting; Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance; Citizens Action Network; Anti-
Violence Partnership at University of Vermont; and the Institute for Civic Engagement
of Burlington College