The Yanka Kupala National Theater has announced another, the eighth casting.

Artists aged 21 to 70 are invited for the selection.

These can be professional artists or students with specialized education.

Knowledge of the Belarusian language is required.

These provisions appeared only in February, during the sixth casting.

In August 2020, Kupala residents publicly condemned the arbitrariness and violence of security forces against peaceful demonstrators, after which the theater's director Pavel Latushko was fired.

As a sign of solidarity with him, almost all actors, directors, editors, administrators, musicians of the orchestra, the head of the literary and dramatic part, the artistic director Nikolai Pinigin left the Kupala Theater - more than 60 people.

Having no stage, they founded the independent troupe "Kupalovtsi" and created 6 original performances.

Since then, Kupala has performed online and filmed in video productions.

The staffing problems of the institution cannot be solved so far.

There are only nine old actors left in the troupe, including Olga Nefedova, who publicly condemned her former colleagues and was appointed artistic director of the theater.

New actors were recruited to the theater through castings.

Some are professionals, including from the theaters of Bobruisk and Pinsk, the rest are students.

There is a lack of technical staff in the current Kupala Theater.