Support Theatre in Belarus

New York - Belarus: A Night of the Free Theatre
Presented by Culture Project/IMPACT; Co-Produced by Aaron Landsman

Monday October 16, at 7:00 PM

Baruch Performing Arts Center’s Nagelberg Theater
55 Lexington Avenue @ at 25th Street

FREE (tax-deductible donations are accepted)

Please come see the first-ever English reading of work by the Free Theatre, a collective of playwrights, actors and directors in Belarus, read by LAByrinth Theater Company, Naked Angels, Paul Willis and Tinderbox Theater. The work is adventurous, funny and passionate, and the artists onstage are great.

Each New York ensemble will present excerpts of one of Free Theatre's plays. Ranging from stories of blackmarket denim to unofficial disappearances, from overheard conversations to surreal dreamscapes, Free Theatre's work is truly transformative. The night will run about 90 minutes. Speechifying will be kept minimal. This is a chance to see what our colleagues are making in a country where creating theater can get you blackmailed, blacklisted and imprisoned.

The plays you'll see include:
We.Belliwood by Pavel Priazhko, Konstantin Steshik and Pavel Rassolko, presented by members of LAByrinth, directed by Michele Chivu
Generation Jeans by Nikolai Khalezin, presented by members of Naked Angels, directed by Johanna Mckeon
They Saw Dream by Natalia Kolada, directed by Paul Willis
Sky/Nikita Mitskevich by Andrei Kurei, presented by Tinderbox Theater, directed by Cynthia Croot

“I would like my plays to be staged in a theatre like the one I saw in Minsk. What I saw in Minsk is much closer to a true theatre, to its sources, to its true objective.”
--Tom Stoppard in an interview to Russian daily, 'Izvestia'.