Productions - Belarus Free Theatre

A performer is burning books in a dark room full of sand

A lot of people are sitting around the dinner table and some of them are looking at the camera smiling.

We’ve been creating for 17 years and have an impressive list of more than 50 shows!

Many of them have been recognised by world media, critics, cultural and political leaders. Some of them received awards, succeeded to make a change, or foresee the future. As for example, one of the latests shows predicted the war Russia started in Ukraine.

You are welcome to find more about them below. Enjoy!

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Postchildhood. Postescape

Postchildhood. Postescape is our new performance about the life and problems of Belarusian and Ukrainian refugee teenagers and their parents. Performed not by professional actors, but students of our theatre school Free Artist in Warsaw.

Low angle mid shot of five people looking at the front. They are all wearing streetwear and one at the back is holding up both of the middle fingers.

Onyx

Onyx is an explosive autobiographic play by Maxim Dosko, the contemporary Belarusian artist and playwright who won the VII International Contest of Contemporary Drama originated by BFT.

Close up to the legs of a performer sitting on a luggage. The performer is wearing a red cardigan, polka dot skirt and a pair of yellow knee-high socks. The performer has a small luggage on their lap like a small table

On the blessed, blind and sucking

Set in a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Minsk, the production centres around a young girl called Zhenya as she sets out to uncover the secret histories of her own family.

Mid shot of a performer wearing a black shirt and a black feather boa in a heavy makeup. The performer is singing in front of a red stage curtain with an old style microphone

New York ‘79

New York ’79 is BFT’s theatrical response to experimental novelist, feminist and punk icon Kathy Acker’s seminal short story, New York City in 1979, “a tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores” that reveals the fault lines between sexual identity, politics and power.

Neohipsters

Tackling some of the most urgent issues of our contemporary world – gender politics, idealism versus materialism, the deconstruction of intellectual demigods – this is a provocative and essential opus from an emerging generation of Belarusian theatre-makers.

Close up and blurry image of the hands of a performer knelt on the floor. The performer's hands are together and little pieces of paper are lined up in one line next to a jar

Nearest and Dearest

Nearest and Dearest is a theatrical staging of a collection of short stories by contemporary Belarusian playwright, Konstantin Steshik.

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