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GENERATION JEANS Puoli-Q / Q-teatteri TICKETS: 25/20/15€ DURATION: 1 h 35 min, no intermission Performed in Russian, translated in English 
DIRECTED BY: Nikolai Khalezin WRITTEN BY : Nikolai Khalezin with participation of Natalia Koliada PERFORMER: Nikolai Khalezin MUSICAL FUSION: DJ Laurel (Lavr Berzhanin)
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"Jeans have become a symbol of freedom. You'll never see Lukashenko in jeans. He only ever dons a dark suit or an ice-hockey outfit." (director Nikolai Khalezin) Generation Jeans – monologue about jeans, rock music and freedom. The story begins in the Soviet Union where jeans and rock music were prohibited. If you sold jeans you would be cought up by the KGB. We follow the main hero, his arrests, his friends and kidnappings ‘till todays’ dictatorial regime of Belarus. This is an ode to the generations of people who do not have age frames and who fight for the freedom of their country. The hero talks about generations of Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia … Every country has this generation. “The production is openly anti-Lukashenko because, if Belarus ever does have a velvet revolution, it will probably be called the denim or jeans revolution. Denim because when a protester, Nikita Sasim was beaten up last year for brandishing first a national Belarussian flag, and then a youth group flag, he took off his denim shirt and made an improvised denim flag. The bewildered riot police didn't know what to do and Khalezin (director of Generation Jeans) says the gesture and the jeans shirt became the symbol of freedom and resistance. Many young people who oppose the government now attach denim ribbons to their bags as a sign of solidarity.” (Andrew Osborn in Minsk, "Independent”) Free Theatre was founded in 2005 by Belarusian playwright Nikolai Khalezin and theatre manager Natalia Koliada. Later the team was joined by stage director Vladimir Scherban. Under current political system the Free Theatre has no official registration, no premises, nor any other facilities. The rehearsals and performances are normally held secretly in small private apartments (which, due to security and persecution reasons, should be constantly alternated) and in street cafes and the countryside. The members of the staff have been repeatedly harassed by the authorities for their participation in the activities of the theatre. The theatre is supported by respected public figures as Sir Tom Stoppard, Václav Havel and Arthur Kopit. In May of 2007 Free Theatre was nominated for the European Theatre Prize (Premio Europa) for 2008. CONTACT INFORMATION SUPPORTED BY N/A |
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