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Burning Doors (10/12/17)
Belarus Free Theatre
Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 4:00PM

The Ellen Stewart Theatre @ La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery & Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
The Ellen Stewart Theatre is located on the south side of East 4th Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue.
Transportation: F Train to Second Ave; R Trains to 8th Street; 6 Train to Astor Place


Burning Doors
Devised and performed by Belarus Free Theatre
Directed by Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada
With Maria Alyokhina from Pussy Riot

Running Time: 1 hour 45 minutes (no intermission)

In Russian with English supertitles.

Where do you belong when your government suppresses your basic right to expression? What do you do when your government 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 Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina, who makes her New York stage debut, in a searing performance on how art persists under oppression. Through the prism of persecuted artists who will not be silenced, Burning Doors reveals how artists living under dictatorship illuminate the knife-edge of complacency in democratic societies reminding us of the true cost of freedom and dangers of inertia.

Belarus Free Theatre, the leading refugee-led theatre company in the UK and the only theater in Europe banned by its own government on political grounds, also draws on it’s own experience of political oppression and continues its campaign to stand up for artistic freedom and human rights across the globe.

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