Zone of Silence, Belarus Free Theatre / Stage

This much-lauded underground collective stages banned dramatic works to promote democracy in the Belarus.

The group also performs a play called Discover Love at Helsinki Festival. Read more here.

“Free to say what they want where they want and to whom they want.”
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Author Nikolai Halezin, Natalia Koliada
Director Vladimir Scherban
Dramatist Konstantin Steshik
On stage Pavel Gorodnitski, Yana Rusakevich, Oleg Sidorchik, Anna Solomianskaya, Denis Tarasenko, Marina Yurevich
Producers Natalia Koliada, Nikolai Khalezin
Assistant managers Irina Yaroshevich, Maryia Vavokhina, Svetlana Sugako

Performed in Russian with surtitles in english.

The Stage Festival, produced in cooperation between Korjaamo Theatre and Helsinki Festival, showcases the best in contemporary European drama. This year, the Festival turns its focus to the lot of human beings in a fast-changing world. What happens when individual freedoms collide with unpredictable and unknowable social movements, it asks?

Since its inception, the Stage has gone on to claim its position as a prominent European theatre festival. The 2009 programme features ten international visitors, two Finnish premieres and a review of Finnish theatre. A total of fifty performances will take place at the Korjaamo festival hub and other theatres and venues across Helsinki.

Photo: Josef Gaff