BELARUS FREE THEATRE URGENTLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO HELP US BRING TRASH CUISINE TO THE UK THIS YEAR!
Every week we will have a different British artist appealing for you support to help us bring Trash Cuisine to the UK in 2013!
RALPH FIENNES APPEALS FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN OUR LAST FILM
PREVIOUS WEEKS: JOANNA LUMLEY, SAM WEST, MARK RYLANCE, ADJOA ANDOH, SIR TIM RICE, SIMON CALLOW AND ALAN RICKMAN
Trash Cuisine 2013 UK Tour Appeal - Joanna Lumley from Belarus Free Theatre on Vimeo.
Trash Cuisine 2013 UK Tour Appeal - Sam West from Belarus Free Theatre on Vimeo.
Trash Cuisine 2013 UK Tour Appeal - Mark Rylance from Belarus Free Theatre on Vimeo.
Trash Cuisine 2013 UK Tour Appeal - Adjoa Andoh from Belarus Free Theatre on Vimeo.
Trash Cuisine 2013 Tour Appeal - Sir Tim Rice from Belarus Free Theatre on Vimeo.
Trash Cuisine 2013 Tour Appeal - Simon Callow from Belarus Free Theatre on Vimeo.
Trash Cuisine 2013 Tour Appeal - Alan Rickman from Belarus Free Theatre on Vimeo.
ABOUT TRASH CUISINE
Trash Cuisine is a dynamic, affecting and innovative piece of theatre devised and developed from first degree research collected in Asia, Africa, U.S. and Europe by Belarus Free Theatre with the support of Amnesty International.
Hugely well received at its premiere in Stadsshouwberg, Amsterdam on 5 October 2012, supported by the European Cultural Foundation, Trash Cuisine explores issues behind imprisonment and torture with particular focus on the death penalty to create a challenging and nerve shredding performance.
Using live music, choreography, actors from Belarus, the U.S., UK and Australia and stunning visual imagery BFT have created an inventive and moving drama.
WHY THIS PROJECT?
Incorporating testimonies of inmates and executioners from Bang Kwang jail in Thailand, of the families of death penalty victims in Belarus, of Liam Holden, the last man in the UK to be sentenced to the death penalty and of Clive Stafford-Smith, noted British human rights lawyer, Belarus Free Theatre have created a performance that will change modern perceptions of this barbaric practice.
We want to bring this extraordinary performance to the UK in order to raise awareness among British people to call for change around the world and to show the power of art in issues of huge international importance.
PRESS ON TRASH CUISINE
“Trash Cuisine was a powerful and bold study of capital punishment.
Great art and culture can cross borders and even ignite the spark of change in people during times of revolution; it's often a song, a poem or a book that inspires people to take action. Anyone lucky enough to see a performance by The Belarus Free Theatre will feel that it has a certain urgency and potency that a Broadway musical can never posses. It was the dissident poet, playwright and political activist Vaclav Havel, whose plays were banned in his own country, who went on to lead the Czech Republic as president. It might not be the last time this sort of thing happens in that part of the world.”
- Hamish Jenkinson, Huffington Post UK. October 11, 2012
“At the end, after all the dead and their executioners, we see two actors motionless, leaning against a white wall. It's the end of a horror ride through death sentences and their enforcement, by stories of injustice, cynicism and nightmares - from Malaysia, Ireland and Belarus, which occupies a focus on "Trash Cuisine".
Wafted reality like an eerie mantra already throughout the play, it is now fully present. Like a train it moves towards you. Boom! For the Dutch viewers who live in a comparatively gentle country to have so much brutal reality is a shock. Some viewers gasping for breath with excitement, others cry.”
- Ingo Petz, DIE WELT. Gegen die Diktatur. Lear tanzt mitten im weißrussischen Horror
ABOUT BELARUS FREE THEATRE
Belarus Free Theatre is a theatre company that has had to struggle for their right to perform in their country where freedom of expression and human rights are hugely repressed. Founded in March 2005 by husband and wife team Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada, with associate director Vladimir Shcherban, their performances in Belarus are held secretly, in small private apartments, the location of which, due to the risk of persecution, must constantly be changed. Despite suffering every form of intimidation and harassment, BFT continue to produce great theatre that is recognised internationally.
The theatre BFT creates is unique because of its innovative approach to urgent and challenging social and political issues. It is impossible for any other company to perform the plays devised and produced by Belarus Free Theatre, as the essence of their work is born out of their personal experiences and research.
The company works with artistic material that is based not only on different styles and types of art but at the edges of spheres such as arts, science and politics.
Belarus Free Theatre has performed in over 42 countries around the world and is recognized for its unique role in theatre as well as for its denial of the narrow options offered it by a contemporary world.
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