Belarus Free Theatre combine forces with Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina to share stories of persecuted artists, living under dictatorship, who will not be silenced.

What happens when you are declared an enemy of the state simply for making art? Where do you belong when your government suppresses your basic right to expression? And how do you survive in one of the most brutal prison systems in the world?

This brand new production blends sensuous theatricality and vigorous physicality to shine a light on the suppression of artistic freedoms. Drawn from the real-life stories of Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky, incarcerated Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and Maria Alyokhina, who makes her stage debut.

BFT (Being Harold Pinter, Trash Cuisine) is the only theatre in Europe banned by its government on political grounds. Burning Doors draws on the company’s own experience of political oppression, and continues their campaign to stand up for artistic and human rights across the globe, reminding us that theatre can be a revolutionary art.