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Counting Sheep review – feverish show recreates Kiev uprising

The Vaults, London
This viscerally powerful piece about the 2014 revolution divides the audience into protesters and observers

Originally conceived by Mark and Marichka Marczyk, this piece of immersive theatre about the Kiev uprising of 2014 was first seen at the Edinburgh festival three years ago.

Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin of the Belarus Free Theatre have now expanded and re-directed it, to turn it into a mix of public spectacle and political theatre, and the result is viscerally powerful even if it leaves several questions unanswered.

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