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2 Dec 2016

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina & The Belarus Free Theatre

Education, Feminism, History, Literature, News & Politics, Performing Arts, Society & Culture, Visual Arts

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina & The Belarus Free Theatre

BROAD’s Sonja Hammer speaks to Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina and the Belarus Free Theatre’s Artistic Director Natalia Koliada at the Melbourne Arts Centre this week Monday the 28th of November 2016,a day before their first performance at the centre the 29th of November and running until the 3rd of December.

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The production is called Burning Doors and as it’s artistic director explains it:“we are built up on challenges,we are not interested in topics that everyone is talking about”.

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What is Belarus Free Theatre:

‘Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) is a UK-based international award-winning theatre company founded on principles of freedom of speech and artistic expression.

Our focus is on social justice, taboo zones and violation of human rights across the globe.

Our approach is akin to investigative journalism. We build ties with people across the globe to immerse ourselves in their culture and engage in their experiences to authentically tell untold stories. This documentary material is the basis for our work along with our actors’ personal experiences of standing up for human rights and resisting dictatorship.

Working across borders we create, campaign and educate.

We bring a sharper sense of reality to the stage by creating theatre drawn directly from real life as well as presenting contemporary deconstructions of classic works.

Our transnational campaigns and theatre educational programmes encourage people to find their own voice within society and to develop a deeper engagement with social and political issues.’

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Song featured in this podcast is :Pussy Riot: Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland

Many thanks to Belarus Free Theatre’s Artistic Director Natalia Koliada and Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina for the chance to talk with them and hear about the importance of what they do.

Below Left to Right: Maria Alyokhina,Sonja Hammer and Natalia Koliada in Melbourne at the Arts Centre Nov 28,2016

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Thanks also to the Melbourne Arts Centre.

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