Belarusians at Edinburgh Festival: Trash Cuisine and Give a Body Back

The Belarus Free Theatre held a performance “Give a Body Back” as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest theatre festival.

The Edinburgh Festival held during August attracts about 1 million spectators. The Belarus Free Theatre plays its Trash Cuisine, which had been triumphantly staged at London's Young Vic, at one of the main festival venues Pleasance Grand.

The performance “Give a Body Back” involved Free Theatre actors, staff of London-based Oberon publisher, lawyers, professors of the University of Edinburgh and Falmouth University as well as volunteers.

The performance was covered by the Scottish and English media.

The campaign “Give a Body Back” was launched last October after the first performance of Trash Cuisine in Amsterdam. The play tells about the hideous practice of using the death penalty in Belarus and in the world.

The campaign “Give a Body Back” demands to:

1. Abolish the death penalty in Belarus.

2. Complete the investigation in cases of the kidnapped people and release their bodies to families.

3. Release the bodies of executed people to their families.

4. Free political prisoners.