Somewhere in between the states of power and powerlessness, Latent Men focuses on relationships between men and women that are turned upside down. Caresses hurt, embraces become an art of strangulation and anyone who has experienced love falls over dead… Thrown back and forth in this interplay of the sexes, the performers continually change their roles until the boundaries between male and female blur or even disappear completely.
With Latent Men, the Belarusian director Yevgieny Korniag defends himself against the traditional theater aesthetic of his country which is based in flights from reality and only presents archetypical images of men and women. In his powerful movement theater, stereotypical power relationships are disrupted as gender-specific as well as sexual concepts of the present are dealt with.

KorniagTHEATRE has neither a permanent stage nor a permanent ensemble. It consists of the founder and director Yevgieny Korniag and young Belarusian artists from a variety of contexts who collective and individually research topics and develop productions. The central focus of the work is experimentation, both in terms of content and form. Yevgieny Korniag studied acting at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts and directing at the Meyerhold Center in Moscow.
Amongst others, Latent Men has been invited to the international theater festivals Le MANIFESTE, Dunkerque (France), WIOSKA TEATRALNA, Węgajty (Poland) and THEATERFEST, Sankt Vith (Belgium).