Belarus Free Theatre

Belarus Free Theatre, the executive arm of Ministry of Counterculture, is an award-winning independent company, committed to producing, educating and campaigning in the related fields of the arts, internationalism, and social justice…

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The tireless Belarus Free Theatre, in short, is more than a theatrical marvel. It is, arguably, a theatre of firsts: the first contemporary company to survive, function and flourish both in exile and at home, despite repression; the first to rely on the Internet to direct and create its art; the first to campaign globally for human rights as well as basic artistic freedom; the first to perform before the U.K.’s Parliament.
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PRODUCTIONS

The Master Had a Talking Sparrow (2017) The Master Had a Talking Sparrow (2017) Belarus Free Theatre’s new participatory production The Master Had a Talking Sparrow takes the audience on a journey exploring the hidden histories of Belarus.
A Flower For Pina Bausch (2010) A Flower For Pina Bausch (2010) The range of emotions and physical gestures proposed by Vladimir Shcherban very accurately refers to the creative world of a genius choreographer Pina Bausch, who once said: “I’m not interested in how people move, I wonder what makes them tick”.
Zone of Silence (2008) Zone of Silence (2008) Zone of Silence is a modern Belarusian epic in three independent chapters offering a panoramic view of everyday life under dictatorship and the taboos that are vehemently repressed.
Generation Jeans (2006) Generation Jeans (2006) Generation Jeans is an autobiographical monologue about rock music and resistance written and performed by BFT co-founder Nikolai Khalezin, with music by DJ Laurel.
Eurepica. Challenge. (2010) Eurepica. Challenge. (2010) Eurepica. Challenge. is an attempt to create a new European epic using contributions from playwrights from 14 countries (Sweden, UK, Latvia, Russia, Belarus, Turkey, Poland, the Ukraine, Germany, Romania, Macedonia, France, Spain and the USA) on the main challenge for their states.
Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker (2011) Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker (2011) If scars are sexy, Minsk must be the sexiest city in the world…
Discover Love (2008) Discover Love (2008) Discover Love is a stirringly powerful original drama, researched over nine years, based on the true story of Irina Krasovskaya and her husband Anatoly, a businessman who supported the Belarus opposition movement and whose body has never been found.
merry christmas, Ms Meadows (2013) merry christmas, Ms Meadows (2013) merry christmas, Ms Meadows challenges the role of identity, gender and sexuality in the world today.
Being Harold Pinter (2006) Being Harold Pinter (2006) How is a play born? Should an artist be involved with politics? Incorporating testimonies from Belarusian political prisoners with excerpts from Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter's lifetime of writings, Being Harold Pinter begins and ends with a search for the answers to these questions.
King Lear (2012) King Lear (2012) Shakespeare's great play about speaking the truth was one of the highlights of Shakespeare Globe’s 2012 Festival.
Red Forest (2014) Red Forest (2014) 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.
Trash Cuisine (2013) Trash Cuisine (2013) Welcome to the Capital Punishment Café! Our chef’s specials today include electrocution, hanging and lethal injection.
Price of Money (2014) Price of Money (2014) Money makes the world go round. Whether you have it or you don’t, its grasp is inescapable as is its power to determine our lives, thoughts and actions.
4.48 Psychosis (2005) 4.48 Psychosis (2005) Sarah Kane’s final play, 4.48 Psychosis, was the first production Belarus Free Theatre ever mounted underground in Minsk in 2005.
Time of Women (2014) Time of Women (2014) The world premiere of a play about women on the forefront of a movement for a democratic Belarus, women with an unflinching and unswerving dedication to the truth.

What’s On

postponed, rescheduled dates TBC London, UK Dogs of Europe Barbican Theatre
Apr - June Online Love Over Virus Online Shows Watch Online
Apr - May Online Love Over Virus Fairy-tales Watch Online
June – July Online Theatre Live(s) Online:
A School For Fools Watch Online
One of the most powerful and vividly resourceful underground companies the planet.
Ben Brantley

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SUPPORT BFT - by supporting our company you support theatre, internationalism and human rights! We work with no regular support from any government and raise our funds wholly through philanthropy.

People who value our cause and our artistic endeavour have helped us first – to survive, then to firmly stand on our feet in the UK. We are grateful to all who have supported us...

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They’re bringing back the essence meaning of the theatre.
Harold Pinter

contact

Belarus Free Theatre
66 The Cut
London
SE1 8LZ
General Enquiries: 020 7922 2998
Management: 020 7922 2992
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