BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

07/01/2009

Rolling Stone Mick Jagger backs Belarus Free Theatre, Sydney Festival 2009

SYDNEY Festival Act, the Belarus Free Theatre, have a heavyweight celebrity ally in their battle against the Belarus Government's cultural censorship.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger met them in Warsaw and backed their campaign against the Government's ban on non-state-owned theatre groups.

He promised to come and play when the dictatorship was not in Belarus, so that's good to know,'' co-founder Natalya Koliada said yesterday.

As part of the festival, the group is performing its latest work, Being Harold Pinter.

It splices transcripts from Belarusian political prisoners with scenes from the late UK playwright's political plays and extracts from Nobel Prize speech from 2005.

Source:

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,27574,24883080-5006009,00.html

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