With two more dates left (7 October and 25 November) the Vanek Trilogy: Living Room Soirees – an interactive theatre production inspired by Vaclav Havel’s Vanek Trilogy – is in the middle of its exciting run across London, recreating the experience, in the communist period, of being forced to watch theatre clandestinely in people’s private…

Lithuanian villages, as in most of Eastern Europe, are now in semi-terminal decline. Once lively places known for their traditions and values, they are increasingly deserted. Schools are closing down, and once-thriving churches becoming monuments to the past. So when CEEL contributor Agne Dovydaityte found her grandfather’s diary, detailing daily life in one such settlement…

Alec Secareanu plays Gheorghe Ionescu in God’s Own Country, the award-winning debut feature film by writer/director Francis Lee, which tells the story of a young Yorkshire farmer who finds himself caught up in a love story with a Romanian farm worker. A powerful film, bracingly different from mainstream LGBT cinema, it’s also unwittingly reflective of…