Critic’s Notebook: Bodies In Pain, Protest And Resistance

BEN BRANTLEY, NY Times: Theater
Tue, 10/17/2017 - 11:47am

Works from the Belarus Free Theater and the Freedom Theater explore the drama of confronting authority.

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