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Close Strangers Festival 2021

Closer Strangers: East is a platform that enables ‘intercultural dialogue’. As a representation of the Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Queer...

Down a side street of ram shackled buildings and rust rimmed cars, there is a door. It is not a...

Agata Siwiak, the art director of Close Strangers: East, is a firm believer in participatory theatre not as a temporary...

The scene is set. We are attending a stand-up performance by Belarusian activist and artist Jana Shostak. We are screaming...

Pandemic.ua is a project inspired by the inability to communicate in conventional theatrical ways during the pandemic. This performance has...

On Friday night, the festival saw the main event; the ‘spectacle’. Close Strangers: East is full to the brim with...

This is a swirling mix of very dark poetry and even darker humour presented with a powerful Brechtian soundtrack. The...

I meet Agata Siwiak in the glamorous downstairs bar and cabaret space at Teatr Polski in Poznan. It is the...

Restaurant Ukraine is a deliberately disjointed affair. Made up of two performers mixing spoken word, dance, rap and political commentary...

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Times is a fascinating play deserving of a wider audience and greater understanding. That I am saying...