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‘I thanked him for ending my acting career!’ – theatre directors on their debt to Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard in a Minsk bar during his time with Belarus Free Theatre in 2005.
‘A dictatorship is not a political category, it is a moral one’ … Tom Stoppard in a Minsk bar during his time with Belarus Free Theatre in 2005. Photograph: Belarus Free Theatre

‘Tom said if we wanted to influence politics, we had to write great plays’

Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, co-founding artistic directors of Belarus Free Theatre

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