What happens when society, justice and the law do not recognise the death of a human being? When the dance floor becomes a courtroom? When a hate crime is not just a family tragedy, instead becoming a symbol of despair, grief, frustration and anger for the entire LGBTIQ+ community of a country of ten million?

In 2020, Belarus showed how the ignorance of a singular homophobic murder can be enough to demonstrate the extent of violence and state oppression affecting all the citizens.

P for Pischevsky, created in Minsk and Berlin, is a combination between documentary performance and techno rave. It is based on the transcript of the trial of the murder of Mikhail Pischevsky, who was attacked in Minsk in 2014 after an LGBTIQ+ party and died in the hospital after one and a half years.

The performance, in which the actors appear both as digital holograms and as material bodies, deals with the resistant potential that unfolds in theatre and club culture when they become places of self-determination.

This collaboration of HUNCHtheatre (UK) and CHEAP (DE) was a multidisciplinary event that merged theatre, rave and civic activism.