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Belarus Free Theatre

September 2023

  • Patsy Ferran as Eliza Doolittle and Bertie Carvel as Henry Higgins either side of a chart that Carvel points to with a stick, in Pygmalion at the Old Vic.

    The week in theatre: Pygmalion; King Stakh’s Wild Hunt; It’s Headed Straight Towards Us – review

    Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel are word-perfect in Richard Jones’s first-rate Shaw revival; Belarus Free Theatre fuse fairytale and reality; and two has-been actors hole up in a trailer in Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s new comedy

March 2022

  • Aliaksei Naranovich and Raman Shytsko in Dogs of Europe.

    Dogs of Europe review – art and activism combine in breathtaking spectacle

    Fairytale imagery is mixed with absurdist humour in this prescient political thriller in which Russia has become a dictatorial superstate

December 2021

  • Belarus Free Theatre. Photo by Linda Nylind. 3/12/2021.

    ‘We are in limbo’: banned Belarus theatre troupe forced into exile

    Members of Belarus Free Theatre say authorities ‘are more scared of artists than of political statements’

August 2020

  • Svetlana Sugako in rehearsals for the Belarus Free theatre.

    Belarus Free theatre's rebel troupes stand up to the Lukashenko regime

    For 15 years, the acclaimed company has been a voice of dissent. Will it finally perform in a free country?

June 2020

  • Belarus Free Theatre’s A School for Fools. Photo credit Kolya Kuprich

    Lockdown culture
    A School for Fools review – Belarus Free Theatre's audacious lockdown challenge

    The company’s years of operating underground inform a dynamic approach to online drama that goes far beyond talking heads

April 2020

  • Dogs of Europe, performed in a secret location in Minsk by Belarus Free Theatre.

    Lockdown culture
    Belarus Free Theatre: Britain is in danger of authoritarianism

    Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin explain how political exile prepared them for lockdown and why their latest project is about fairytales

February 2019

  • Counting Sheep at the Vaults, London.

    Counting Sheep review – feverish show recreates Kiev uprising

    This viscerally powerful piece about the 2014 revolution divides the audience into protesters and observers

February 2018

  • David Lan View from the Bridge (with Mark Strong) Three Sisters (Benedict Andrews directed) Sweet Nothings (in 2010) Scottsboro Boys (2013)

    How the Young Vic's David Lan dared to put the world centre-stage

    Lan, who ran the theatre for 18 years, reached out to bold, dynamic directors from across the globe – and they repaid him with spectacular shows

October 2016

  • Emily Houghton in Tomorrow I Was Always A Lion

    Tomorrow I Was Always a Lion review – ingenious journey inside mental illness

    Five actors take turns to portray a woman overcoming schizophrenia in this imaginative yet disquieting Belarus Free Theatre adaptation of a bold memoir

September 2016

  • Maryia Sazonava, left, and Pussy Rioter Maria Alyokhina in Burning Doors by Belarus Free Theatre

    Burning Doors review – dark stories from eastern Europe

  • Toilet humour … Pavel Haradnitski and Andrei Urazau in Burning Doors by Belarus Free Theatre.

    Burning Doors review – Pussy Riot member's charged stories of persecution

June 2016

  • Masha Alyokhina (left) and Nadya Tolokonnikova from Pussy Riot.

    Pussy Riot's Masha Alyokhina brings play to UK

    Burning Doors, put on by Belarus Free Theatre, will draw on the experiences of artists jailed and censored in Russia

March 2016

  • Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters (with yellow umbrellas) clash with government supporters (with red flags) in 2015.

    Theatre blog
    Staging a revolution: can theatre be an effective form of activism?

    Secret shows, street protests, satire … performance has long been connected to political causes. But does it have mass impact beyond a grassroots level?

November 2015

  • Aleh Sidorchyk as Lear by Belarus Free Theatre

    King Lear review – incontinence and egg-smashing from Belarus Free Theatre

  • Kiryl Kanstantsinau and Maryna Yurevich in Time of Women by Belarus Free Theatre

    Time of Women review – Belarus Free Theatre probe oppressors' mind games

October 2015

  • Michael Sheen in his home town of Port Talbot.

    Michael Sheen: the freedom and terror of learning to act

    Michael Sheen
    A newly published anthology of polemics curated by Belarus Free Theatre explores what freedom means today. In this extract, the Welsh actor returns to his drama school days

June 2015

  • L to r: Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Koliada (founders of the company) and Vladimir Scherban (director of the play). Belarus Free Theatre in rehearsals for their production of Being Harold Pinter, at the Soho Theatre, London Commissioned Photo by Linda Nylind. 11/2/2008

    Belarus Free Theatre: glimpse stage life under authoritarian rule

    UK festival of undercover performances and secretive debates lets audience experience restricted existence of theatre outlawed in its home country

August 2014

  • Belarus Free Theatre, Merry Christmas Ms Meadows

    Edinburgh 2014 review: Merry Christmas, Ms Meadows – too many issues, not enough drama

    Belarus Free Theatre seem a mite confused as they tell story of the teacher who angered the Daily Mail by having gender reassignment, writes Lyn Gardner

June 2014

  • Red Forest, Belarus Free Theatre, Young Vic

    Red Forest review – aesthetic hand-wringing over the environment

  • Belarus's Free Theatre battles the KGB, dictatorship and exile

    New East network
    Dangerous Acts: Belarus Free Theatre battles the KGB, dictatorship and exile - video

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