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“Terrifyingly timely”

Long ReviewsMar 14, 2022Barbican Theatre, London

Pavel Haradnitski, Maryna Yakubovich, Ilya Yasinski and Stanislava Shablinskaya in Dogs of Europe by Belarus Free Theatre at the Barbican. Photo: Linda Nylind

Pavel Haradnitski, Maryna Yakubovich, Ilya Yasinski and Stanislava Shablinskaya in Dogs of Europe by Belarus Free Theatre at the Barbican. Photo: Linda Nylind

This dystopian epic by Belarus Free Theatre, based on Alhierd Bacharevič’s banned novel, bursts off the stage and speaks directly to the present tragedy currently unfolding in Europe

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