Where is MFT’s place on the European theatrical scene?
Belarus is completely isolated from the rest of the world. Promoting our productions and inserting them into the European context is both necessary and indispensable. Our tours abroad are a means of overcoming the censorship that we are victims of at home. The set that we use has become one of the only free spaces for promoting Belarusian culture. We recruit writers by means of competitions, all under 30. Some of them are starting to become very well-known in Russia. What is the relationship between the MFT and its public? We want to make the spectator more active. For a part of our public, rather than a mode of expression, the Free Theatre has become a way of existence and of life. We have cultivated a telepathic relationship with our spectators who stay loyal to us, even it it’s become more and more difficult to find places to perform. The theatre must be democratic and accessible to the greatest number of people. Even if people have difficulty in grasping our style at first,
