Belarus Free Theatre, known for developing an artistic form of resistance, will talk about the need for theatre to reflect on democracy and remind us that in totalitarian regimes, artists are there to fight censorship and challenge the authorities through their work. The two co-founders being themselves political refugees exiled from their countries, will not only discuss the situation in Belarus but the participation of theatre in the democratic ideals and the exercise of democracy itself.

Dans Le Ciel rouge, écrit en 1998, une femme vieillissante, communiste, ancien professeur, qui s’est mise à boire, soliloque sur les illusions du passé et ses désillusions, la mort de son mari, l’effondrement des espoirs de la gauche, le chagrin que son fils emprisonné lui cause.