Dramatyzacja-2025: a new stage for Belarusian playwriting in exile
The first Dramatyzacyja’25 competition-festival in Warsaw: how it was born out of a need for texts and a voice, who made the long- and shortlists, staged readings of five plays about memory, trauma and identity — and the winning play, “Limbo” by Renata Talan.
The Druga Próba festival of performative readings: a new space for Belarusian theatre
An analysis of Belarusian staged readings at the Druga Próba festival in Poznań: four categories of the newest playwriting — inward testimony, diasporic identity, liminal border-space and speculative crisis plays — and the staged reading as a new form of Belarusian theatre in exile.
A non-local text and the trauma of time: a conversation with Valiantsina Maroz
Valiantsina Maroz — director and curator — talks to Kseniya Knyazeva about her five years as a reader for the WriteBox festival, what makes a good play, theatre under conditions of invisibility, and the new Dramatyzacyja competition.
WriteBox: a gathering point for contemporary Belarusian playwriting
In the second half of the 2010s, contemporary Belarusian playwriting was noticed abroad yet almost invisible at home. WriteBox emerged as an answer to that gap — a competition-festival of contemporary Belarusian drama that brought new plays, voices and theatrical forms together in one space. Over five years it became a point of reference and an archive of its era, without which it is impossible today to speak about the development of Belarusian drama.