A Quiet Revolution: About The Festival Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 10/10/2021 Closer Strangers: East is a platform that enables ‘intercultural dialogue’. As a representation of the Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Queer communi...
Shelter Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 07/10/2021 Down a side street of ram shackled buildings and rust rimmed cars, there is a door. It is not a welcoming door. In fact, the paint is so chipped that ...
That Walk Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 03/10/2021 Agata Siwiak, the art director of Close Strangers: East, is a firm believer in participatory theatre not as a temporary solution due to the pandemic, ...
Stand Up (for your rights) Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 02/10/2021 The scene is set. We are attending a stand-up performance by Belarusian activist and artist Jana Shostak. We are screaming for Belarus; we are shar...
Pandemic.ua Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 30/09/2021 Pandemic.ua is a project inspired by the inability to communicate in conventional theatrical ways during the pandemic. This performance has a longer h...
H-Effect Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 28/09/2021 On Friday night, the festival saw the main event; the ‘spectacle’. Close Strangers: East is full to the brim with new and innovative approaches to per...
MYKWA (Mikveh or מקווה) Karol Mroziński 01/12/2020 Mikveh, a purpose-built ritual bath for the purpose of ritual immersion in water to achieve ritual purity. Orthodox Jewish women must immerse in the M...
Der Szturem. Cwiszyn / Burza. Pomiędzy(The Tempest. In Between) Marta Bryś 08/10/2020 The Ester Rachel and Ida Kamińska Jewish Theatre in Warsaw remains, together with Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat (the State Jewish Theatre) in Bucharest, th...
Psychosis – Close Strangers Festival Emma Burnell 17/09/2019 This is a swirling mix of very dark poetry and even darker humour presented with a powerful Brechtian soundtrack. The performance is non-linear but su...
Restaurant Ukraine – Close Strangers Festival Emma Burnell 14/09/2019 Restaurant Ukraine is a deliberately disjointed affair. Made up of two performers mixing spoken word, dance, rap and political commentary it is more h...
