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Belarus Free Theatre

BELARUS FREE THEATRE

  (2005 - )
Nationality:    Belarusian
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Belarus Free Theatre is an underground Theatre group that began on March 2005, during the second term (20012006) of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, as an artistic means of resisting Belarusian government pressure and censorship. International Contest on Contemporary Drama was founded by playwrights Nikolai Khalezin and his wife, the Theatre producer Natalia Koliada, human rights activists. In May 2005 the team was joined by stage director Vladimir Scherban, who has produced the majority of Free Theatre performances. Currently the Theatre's staff consists of ten professional actors, one professional Dramatist, four managers and two technical assistants. Under the current political system Belarus Free Theatre has no official registration, no premises, nor any other facilities. Rehearsals and performances (always free of charge for the public) are normally held secretly in small private apartments, which, due to security and the risk of persecution, must constantly be changed. On several occasions, performances were given in street cafes and in the countryside, in the woods. Staffs members have been repeatedly harassed by the authorities for their participation in the Belarus Free Theatre activities and the stage director together with other people were sacked from their jobs at state-run Theatres. - Wikipedia

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         Being Harold Pinter         Discover Love         Generation Jeans         King Lear         Minsk, 2011: A Reply To Kathy Acker         Price Of Money         Red Forest         Time Of Women         Trash Cuisine         Zone Of Silence

Being Harold Pinter

Synopsis:
a kaleidoscopic collage drawn from five plays by Harold Pinter and his Nobel speech

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Leeds    Apr 2007

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Discover Love

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a gripping original Drama based on the true story of dissident Irina Krasovskaya and her husband anatoly, who was "disappeared" 10 years ago

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Generation Jeans

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King Lear

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Minsk, 2011: A Reply To Kathy Acker

Minsk, 2011: A Reply To Kathy Acker
In Belarus people bear the scars of repression all over their body. Gay Pride marches are brutally suppressed. Underground nightclubs are routinely raided by special-forces. If scars are sexy then Minsk must be the sexiest city in the world. a lament for a city that has lost its way, for a beloved home that has turned ugly, for a people who cannot express themselves.

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Belarus Free theatre, concept and adaptation by Vladimir Scherban; English adaptation by Chris Thorpe. Fringe First winner 2011

1st Produced:
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    22 Aug 2011

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Fuel Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190171

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Price Of Money

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How does money control the world we live in? Whether you have it or not, its power is a driving force, determining lives, characters and actions. In this brand new production Belarus Free Theatre explores money through the ages: from ancient Greece through the Elizabethan golden-age, to today's fractured economy and our own personal relationships.

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Price of Money, conceived by Vladimir Shcherban and devised by Belarus Free Theatre, is inspired by Aristophanes' Plutus, the first political satire from ancient Athens, Ben Johnson's work on the emerging ethics of capitalism, The Staple of News, and Get Outraged! the inspirational text of 93-year-old Stephane Hessel which became the manifesto for the Occupy movement. Hessel calls for young people to look around them and find their own reasons to get outraged about the modern injustices we face in the world today.

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Red Forest

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Aisha is on the run. Forced to flee her village and give birth to her baby girl in the Sahara, she crosses the globe in search of shelter. But to find it, she must overcome the terrible cruelties of nature and man.

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script by Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kallada

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LIFT 2014 festival

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Time Of Women

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about women on the forefront of a movement for a democratic Belarus - women with an unflinching and unswerving dedication to the truth.

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Belarus    2014

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Trash Cuisine

Trash Cuisine
Banned from performing in their own country, Belarus Free theatre serve up food, music, dance and Shakespeare as they share true stories from inmates, executioners, human rights lawyers and families of the executed. This provocative and urgent play pierces the imagination with moments of the darkest humour as it challenges capital punishment in our contemporary world, where 95 countries still carry out the death penalty.

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devised and performed by Belarus Free theatre; written by Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada

1st Produced:
Stadsshouwberg, Amsterdam    05 Oct 2012

Organisations:
european Cultural Foundation

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190171

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Zone Of Silence

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Belarusian taboos are explored in three chapters, Childhood Legends, Diverse, and Numbers.

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