P for Pischevsky

What happens if the society and the law do not recognise the death of one person? When a hate crime is not just a family tragedy, but it becomes a symbol of despair, grief, hopelessness and anger of the entire LGBTQI* community of a nation of ten million. Is it enough for the snowball of violence to grow into a full scale mass repressions in Europe in 2020 if the society is ready to ignore one single homophobic murder?
"P for Pischevsky", created between Minsk and Berlin, is a combination of documentary performance and rave. It is based on the transcript of the trial following the murder of Mikhail Pischevsky, who was attacked in Minsk in 2014 after an LGBTQI* party and died in hospital after a year and a half.
The performance negotiates the resistant potential that unfolds in theatre and rave culture when they become places of self-determination.

Director: Vladimir Shcherban (BY/UK) | DJ / Sound Design: Gleb Kovalski (BY/UA/DE) | Cast: Maryna Shukiurava (BY/UA/GE), Oliver Bennett (UK), Jos McKain (US/DE), Susanne Sachße (via video) (DE) | Live visual: Misha Ksiushina (BY) | Stage Design: Şenol Şentürk (DE) | Lighting Design: Martin Siemann (DE) | Motion graphics and video production: Motis Studio/CHEAP | Produced by: Andrei Zavalei (BY/DE) | Translators: Lydia Nagel (RU/DE), Darya Romanovich ( RU/EN) | Portrait: Hanna Kruk (BY) | Wordmark Logo Design: Olga Luchanok (BY/DE)

Production: HUNCHtheatre Belarus (Minsk) and CHEAP (Berlin) in cooperation with Delo Pi_ Campaign Against Homophobia
Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin)
Funded by: Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb), Goethe-Institut (International Coproduction Fund) 
Supported by: Between Bridges Foundation