October 29 is one of the most tragic in Belarus... It is also called the Night of Poets, Shot Poets or Black Night. It was on the night of October 29 to 30, 1937, in Minsk, near the Kuropat forest, NKVD hitmen killed 132 people, including 22 of the most famous Belarusian writers, poets and dozens of the brightest people of science, culture, art, and politics in interwar Belarus. Among the shot poets: Alesis Dudaris, Izi Charikas, Anatolis Volnyjus, Michasis Čarotas... Their tragic destinies and poetry unfold in director Andrias Darela's play "For what" (Teatr Avgusta).Director A. Darela: "Then, on October 29, 1937, something happened that has a great impact on the present. The Soviet state wanted to create a rootless Soviet man. This was done by destroying culture and traditions. It was necessary to create a monster determined to prey and not question. He destroyed the ring of the Belarusian nation, the cultural elite. Our performance features poets who in one way or another had connections with the theater: they translated plays, wrote for the theater. The lines selected for the play are extremely relevant even today. These people probably knew more, and that's why they were killed. The actors did not even doubt the choice of material, it is their personal pain, their story, they looked very responsibly and carefully at the material of the play. It was their initiative. They inspired me to research and collect material, and later the idea for the play was born. I am very grateful to them. We changed the end of the play, now on the stage - the Belarusian fighters of the Kalinauskas group fighting for Ukraine take the oath. The text of the oath is also important, in which there is a desire to liberate Belarus and take revenge for all the victims. And so will."A group of Belarusian actors from the two theaters of the city of Gardina and the county theaters have been living in Vilnius for some time. After the protests organized in the 2020s, they were fired from their jobs in the theater, left Belarus, and after receiving creative scholarships, came to Vilnius and joined the "Teatr Avgusta" collective.