Director Aksana Haiko talks about a joint theater project with the Swedish theater ADAS. The project Mama Zoya, Belarus was based on the life story of the director’s mother. Due to differences in views on the work, Aksana had to leave the project. In the text, she analyzes what happened through the lens of postcolonial studies.

Since February 24, 2022, I have been harboring hatred inside me. Normally, I don’t wish harm on anyone, but from this date onward I began to wish all the worst on one person — President Putin. It literally ate away at me, burning holes inside and twisting my internal organs. I wanted to breathe fire […]

I’ve been re-reading your text for a while, and what I concluded is  that the adverb “not,” at the beginning of your statement, doesn’t hold at all: “We do not [author’s emphasis] agree with colleagues that everything we’ve done in art for the last 8, 14, 20, or for some more than 30 years, has […]

– “What do I do?” – asked a young man from Petersburg, impatiently. – What do you mean what should you do? If it’s summer – wash berries and make jam out of them; if it’s winter – drink tea with that jam. Vasily Rozanov National plans established for the next six months are usually […]