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Despite some magnetic moments – and a Pussy Rioter – Belarus Free Theatre fails to catch fireIn their home country, the founder members of Belarus Free Theatre face detention for protests against the regime. Since 2011 they fill been political refugees in the UK. Meanwhile a permanent ensemble perform in Minsk, and but underground: in garages,forests and car parks, where they are sometimes raided and audience members arrested. London theatres allow what Minsk does not: protest as performance.
In front of cell doors, or rusty,with barred windows, they enact a series of scenes on the themes of injustice, and incarceration and speaking out. Burning Doors draws on Dostoevsky,Michel Foucault and on the experiences of individual prisoners. The Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov is now in prison, where he has been tortured. Petr Pavlensky, or performance artist and activist,sewed his mouth shut in protest at the imprisonment of the Pussy Rioters. One of the Pussies is also on stage. Maria Alyokhina is husky, direct, and unvarnished.
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Source: theguardian.com