[{"description": "No matter what the laws of physics decree, there is untold and explosive energy in resistance. Or such is the evidence of \u201cBurning Doors,\u201d the Belarus Free Theater\u2019s bruising exploration of the dynamics of resistance \u2014 the kind that occurs in the intersection of art and politics \u2014 at La MaMa.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/1991", "location": "", "date": "October 22, 21:41", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/03/3b/033bb81f010e6652b3de31c2c5ea1800.jpg"}, {"description": "In Hamburg, the Belarus Free Theatre is presenting the documentary theatre performance \u2018Burning Doors\u2019, straight from the underworld of  Putin\u2019s  regime. 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We are talking about London Stories, a Battersea Arts Centre project where story tellers, all immigrants or refugees, tell the tale of how they came to make London their home.", "author": "verity healey", "section": "Reviews", "title": "London Stories; a shifting point", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/1062", "location": "", "date": "November 13, 13:15", "has_gallery": true, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/d4/80/d4804ec68f81e26f2426e74a1c682557.jpg"}, {"description": "The Belarus Free Theatre, which campaigns for free expression in Belarus, is calling on the British government to pressurise the Russian authorities to release prisoners whose only crime is to have opposed the annexation of Crimea, an act that the British Government has declared illegal.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Russia: Belarus Free Theatre calls for the release of jailed Ukranian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov", "has_video": true, "lat": "", "link": "/en/965", "location": "", "date": "October 15, 8:04", "has_gallery": true, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/92/f3/92f3b6f1e139b96b8307024db900d6a2.jpg"}, {"description": "Belarus Free Theatre's newest performance Burning Doors tells the stories of three dissident artists, and stars Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina. Verity Healey joined them in the rehearsal room to explore their incendiary creative process.", "author": "verity healey", "section": "Reviews", "title": "Burning Doors", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/856", "location": "", "date": "September 12, 17:39", "has_gallery": true, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/3c/6a/3c6a16bf4cf3a88fbde11dc697192001.jpg"}, {"description": "Pussy Riot's Masha Alyokhina is working with Belarus Free Theatre to make UK audiences stand up for political prisoners \u2013 Jessie Thompson meets them to find out more.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Belarus Free Theatre meets Pussy Riot: 'If you don't run in front of the train, then you're nowhere'", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/839", "location": "", "date": "September 08, 9:13", "has_gallery": true, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/7d/05/7d05bb9e33dbf94ae89fb76911903c84.jpg"}, {"description": "Jeremy Herbert\u2019s fortress and moat implied stage are reached by the audience filing through a deserted psychiatric waiting room in the underbelly of the Young Vic\u2019s main space. The smell of bleach catches the back of the throat.", "author": "verity healey", "section": "Reviews", "title": "Review Blue/Orange: What is sanity? 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It\u2019s forced the company to form close protective relationships with their home audiences, many of whom are themselves committed to the struggle to oust dictator Alexander Lukashenko. It\u2019s also encouraged BFT to think particularly about their audiences outside Belarus and how they communicate with them during and post shows. But what\u2019s particularly apparent to anyone who regularly attends BFT\u2019s plays, is the strong invisible presence of the audiences and creative teams who support the company in secret in Belarus, who while not being with global audiences in body, are certainly there in spirit. This bond between audience, actor, and company, those who are present and not present, was imaginatively highlighted by BFT\u2019s Staging a Revolution festival held in London, a two-week celebration of the company\u2019s tenth anniversary.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Place Hacking, Belarus Free Theatre, and Coming Home", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/338", "location": "", "date": "February 15, 10:47", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/12/ac/12ac70d9216f02191ba98fc56853a437.jpg"}, {"description": "If a King Lear could still be said to exist anywhere in the world, then Alexander Lukashenko, the president of the Republic of Belarus, is about as close a candidate as you could find. In office for more than two decades, the monarchical dictator of the outlying Eastern European nation holds all the effective reins of governmental power, including near-total control of spending, the ability to dissolve an uncooperative parliament and a stranglehold on the judiciary.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "'King Lear,' via Belarus, rages and storms at Chicago Shakespeare", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/329", "location": "", "date": "February 08, 17:57", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/a4/83/a4837ab8166953f8d74e90e6f7b5db54.jpg"}, {"description": "Belarusian Dissidents as Nasty as They Wanna Be.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "King Lear (Shakespeare 400 Chicago)", "has_video": true, "lat": "", "link": "/en/327", "location": "", "date": "February 08, 13:51", "has_gallery": true, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/c0/89/c0898a21ad3840fdbf4f7e7f4b8c0e6c.jpg"}, {"description": "This is a play that showcases Caryl Churchill\u2019s instinct for comedy and close observation of characters whose personal turmoils and tragedies are never quite out of their lives, like dark shadows that interrupt the gentle sunlight. It also parallels the playwright\u2019s love for ironic, genre-busting dramatic sabotage, here being in the form of an apocalyptic nightmare.", "author": "verity healey", "section": "Reviews", "title": "The individual hells in Escaped Alone at the Royal Court", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/310", "location": "", "date": "January 31, 12:44", "has_gallery": true, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/5d/5c/5d5cb4f98e7dca976451f6b099f45aa4.jpg"}, {"description": "Belarus Free Theatre\u2019s theatrical laboratory Fortinbras\u2019 provocations of pop up contemporary art and theatre shone a bright light through the chinks of the armor of Belarus\u2019 dictatorship this past December in a cold and rainy Minsk.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Pop Up Performance in a Dictatorship? No Problem!", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/285", "location": "", "date": "January 15, 17:10", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/04/15/04155b8928067c91733c0cd4586096c8.jpg"}, {"description": "\r\nRare meat, naked actors, Vladislav Kovalev's child photos \u2013 Belarus Free Theatre shows Belarusian version of Trash Cuisine in Minsk.", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Trash Cuisine: Rare meat, naked actors, Vladislav Kovalev's child photos", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/276", "location": "", "date": "December 28, 16:38", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/12/fe/12fe52ba49d35114e2f71cb42ecbbafc.jpg"}, {"description": "Verity Healey talks to Natalia Kaliada about Staging A Revolution.", "author": "verity healey", "section": "Reviews", "title": "Natalia Kaliada: \u201cAny system, anywhere, is afraid of people who think\u201d", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/261", "location": "", "date": "November 27, 11:45", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/7c/b9/7cb958b491f16d9f7cd778e7e1417459.jpg"}, {"description": "The body. Or, rather, our bodies.", "author": "verity healey", "section": "Reviews", "title": "Trash Cuisine- Belarus Free Theatre- Staging a Revolution- New River Studios", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/257", "location": "", "date": "November 26, 15:29", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/b2/e5/b2e5ac610a3a510761148b58eef0f580.jpg"}, {"description": "Earlier this month Belarus Free Theatre invited Freedom from Torture to lead the post-performance audience discussion of their play Being Harold Pinter at the Young Vic Theatre. Noreen McKeever went along to watch them in action:", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Freedom From Torture With Belarus Free Theatre At The Young Vic", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/255", "location": "", "date": "November 24, 18:09", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/92/81/928101019632f95fb6b8afe11b58ea4d.jpg"}, {"description": "The repeated violations of subordinate aerial spaces by U.S. drones constitute one of today\u2019s most striking examples. Just as sovereignty is no longer flatly territorial but instead volumetric and three-dimensional, so too are the ways to challenge or deny it.\r\n\r\n\u2013 Gr\u00e9goire Chamayou, Drone Theory\r\n\r\n\u201cTonight we are live-streaming. We hope that people online could see us in Belarus, in Ukraine, in Russia and many other countries where we don\u2019t have artistic freedoms.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u2013 Natalia Kaliada, Belarus Free Theatre", "author": null, "section": "Reviews", "title": "Belarus Free Theatre\u2019s networks of dissent", "has_video": false, "lat": "", "link": "/en/252", "location": "", "date": "November 22, 18:01", "has_gallery": false, "lng": "", "image": "/media/cache/ba/97/ba97001ca9a44d8e073e4803812dd058.jpg"}]