★★★★ “A scorching piece of theatre: uncompromising, urgent and angry.” — Financial Times

Where do you belong when your government suppresses your basic right to expression? What do you do when the state imprisons you for making art? How would you survive one of the most brutal prison systems in the world?

Belarus Free Theatre combines forces with PussyRiot’s Maria Alyokhina in her stage debut to tell the stories of three dissident artists and to examine how art persists under oppression. As governments clamp down and walls go up, this blazing production confronts today’s most urgent issues in a searing performance that blends sensuous theatricality and vigorous physicality. We see how artists living under dictatorship illuminate the knife-edge of complacency in democratic societies, reminding us of the true cost of freedom and the dangers of inertia.

Belarus Free Theatre is an award-winning refugee-led theatre company in the U.K. and the only theatre in Europe banned by its own government on political grounds. Founded on principles of freedom of speech and artistic expression. Its focus is on social justice, taboo zones and violation of human rights across the globe, with an approach akin to investigative journalism. Their transnational campaigns and theatre educational programs encourage people to find their own voice within society and to develop a deeper engagement with social and political issues.