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DARK ROOM

9 january, 23:00, from 8 000 тг. Buy tickets

10 january, 23:00, from 8 000 тг. Buy tickets

11 january, 23:00, from 8 000 тг. Buy tickets

About the performance:
Dark Room tells the story of a difficult coming of age without parents or close family, but with chat roulette, dating apps, and SoundCloud instead. Loss of identity, modern loneliness, violence, digital anonymity, addiction, the search for love, and work in the webcam industry are all part of the reality the main character faces.

Dark Room is a play by Belarusian playwright tester98, written against the backdrop of the 2020»2021 protests in Belarus. It is an attempt to construct a new model of life - one that has turned into an endless rave. In this space, pain and joy dissolve, borders between bodies and countries disappear, moral taboos fade, and political news merges with personal experience. It is a new way of existing.

«…a powerful sense of drama, organic acting, documentary texture, collage structure, agent-based multimedia scenography, a shift toward performance, rave and queer culture… I entered the dark room and everyone inside was familiar…»

98mag, May 2025

«The performance is not intended for a conservative audience, and even its starting time became a kind of signal to attract attention. Indeed, the audience of DARK ROOM did not resemble the usual theater crowd, even that of contemporary theater.»

Kursiv Lifestyle, June 2025

About the director: Mark Kuklin is a director, scenographer, and performer. A graduate of the acting-directing program at ARTiSHOK Theatre. He works with ARTiSHOK and adamdart theatres and is a participant in the Documentary Theatre Laboratory.
As a scenographer, he has collaborated with ArtKoshe and Jolda theatres and created a multimedia dramaturgical installation based on Svetlana Petriychuk’s play Finist the Bright Falcon. His scenography for TAMYR was presented at the Off Avignon Festival in France, while his documentary performance In Memory was shown at the Vabaduse Festival in Estonia.

About the playwright: tester98 is an anonymous playwright from Minsk. His plays Dark Room and OBJ№ were shortlisted for the independent drama festival Lyubimovka in 2021 and 2022.