The beginning of a collection of information about the Belarusian Theater.
See a very interesting collection of theatre links on Professor Nikolai N. Kostyukovich's Web site (at the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Mensk, Belarus).
An interesting essay and a collection of contact information about Belarusian theatre (note: no connection to the A Belarus Miscellany Web site) (Note: Last updated in 1998. Part of the "Eight Days a Week" supplement to the Minsk News.):
From the "Scotsman" review:
" 'Chagal Chagal', from Vitebsk in Belarus, is a staggeringly beautiful show about the early life of the artist Marc Chagall, as he remembers it in his dying moments. Born in Vitebsk in 1887, Chagall was entirely shaped as an artist by the life of the city’s Jewish community and by his love for the little city he never left in his imagination."
"Here, nine magnificent actors from the Yakub Kolas Dramatic Theatre recreate that life in a series of ten exquisite, tableau-like scenes that shimmer with respect for the world Chagall knew, and with sorrow for the horrors that were to sweep it away."
The complete online review of "Chagal Chagal" is at the following link:
http://www.festival.scotsman.com/cfm/reviews/reviews_specific.cfm?uniqueid=TS00121028&navlevel3=&submitflag=N
I couldn't find anything about the play on the official Edinburgh International Festival Web site: http://www.eif.co.uk/ but I did find a summary on another official festival Web site:
http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/ or
http://www.go-edinburgh.co.uk/
They do have some Web cams of the festival linked from the http://www.festival.scotsman.com/ Web site.
Information from several sources, including: BelaPAN, No. 97; Wednesday, August 23, 2000; 9:50 p.m.
Dze-ya?'s Web site: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/3393/English.html (Note: Last updated in 1999.)
"The award-winning company always in search of its own theatre language, different from Western European drama theatre. Its performances are unexpected, new, controversial, but never boring. Dodge is based on the folk fairy-tale motifs and anti-Bolshevik."
"Outdoor promenade production in the dramatic setting of Ravenscraig Castle recalling Demarco Gallery's two productions of Macbeth on Inchcolm. Directed by Valerie Anisenko (Free Stage Theatre, Mensk, Belarus). Belarusian and Scottish actors perform in the world of the Thane of Fife." (Note: Also translated as "Free Scene".)
Free Stage's (Volnaja scena) Web site: http://www.freescene.org.by/ (Note: Last updated in April, 2000.)