#pressparadox

The performance is arising from a devising process of the theatre group 8lidí. PRESS PARADOX is the result of a long lasting attempt of the group to work on a collective collaborative basis without a director figure above. After working in public spaces the group shifted its attention to classical theatrical dispositive and PRESS PARADOX is the first performance of this dramaturgical line. The starting point for the development of the project was an event that recently shocked the world of the media. Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who flew to Kiev Ukraine due to his political persecutions in his motherland was assassinated in front of his door. One day after the reporter's death, a live Arkady Babchenko appeared at the press conference and claimed, that the whole murder was staged in cooperation with the Ukrainian secret services to actually avoid a factual assassination . What are today's journalists threatened with? When to give priority to your personal safety and when, despite all the risks, to comply with the ethics of the journalists profession? And who is actually Arkady Babchenko?

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