Robert Sturua moves to Moscow?

On September 27, the theater, famous throughout the world by Sturua's performances, will open a new season without it. Robert Sturua, meanwhile, considers the proposal to become the main invited director of the Moscow Theater "Et Seter". The Cooperation of “ET Seter” with Robert Sturua began for a long time - in particular, here he put “The Last Krapp” tape of Becket and “storm” of Shakespeare with Alexander Kalyagin in the main roles.

Robert Sturua is one of the most irreconcilable opponents of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and his politics, ”Radio Liberty George Kobaladze recalls the Tbilisi correspondent. Recently, the director even compared Mikhail Saakashvili with Hitler. But, criticizing the policy of the head of state, Robert Sturua himself has beaten to very strange arguments. For example, in an interview. Answering the journalist’s question, how he can explain the “anti -people” motivations of Mikhail Saakashvili, Robert Sturua answered : “He is an Armenian, what can you do? After all, this is not a secret? ...” Later Robert Sturua reinforced his thought with an even more strange thesis: “We should not be surprised that people can’t stand the representatives of a different nation. I, for example, can not love Negroes, not because they are not because they are non -GRAS, But because they stand below me in culture. "

The statements of Robert Sturois caused a rapid indignation of the Armenian community of the country. It should be noted that President Saakashvili has repeatedly said that he considers Xenophobes his personal enemies.

“I will tell you objectively, as the chronicles say,” Robert Sturua began a conversation with the observer Radio Liberty from these words. - The rumor spread that they abolished such a position in all theaters - Khudoruk. I said that they just want to take me off, but they don’t risk me, so they want to remove the institution of artistic leaders at all. Well, I was a little offended, and yesterday at five hours the manager of the theater enters. Previously, this position was called the “director”, and now these managers are appointed, as it were, the Central Committee, are mechanically placed by the authorities so that they monitor the behavior of artistic leaders. Some artistic leaders combine this position; In the Rustaveli Theater, this position was not combined, I did not want to. And the manager brings the order of the Minister of Culture to dismiss me from the post of Khudruk. At this time, I smoked and sat on Facebook . I have active sociable friends. I am an old man, but my friends are mostly young. The smoke from the cigarette hit me in my right eye and he began to wate. It seemed to the manager that I was paying. I took advantage of this moment and said that I want to photograph this order. Apparently, he did not dare to forbid me to photograph because of my "tears". I took a picture of this order, he left, and I launched him on Facebook. Probably, my friends would have recognized later, but I took it - and then I posted it all into the network.

My decision and how I will behave myself, probably depends on further events. Today I was called from Moscow - producer David Smelyansky, Alexander Kalyagin from the Et Seter Theater. They wanted this for a long time, last year, when I put a "storm". And I am inclined to agree. But still, I did not give a final answer, because I want to figure out what will happen.

- Kalyagin suggests that you become the art director of Et Seter?

- No, the main director with the artistic director of Kalyagin. "Invited chief director" - they called the position so.

- So, in the order of the Ministry of Culture, it is only about the fact that you are fired, and not at all about the fact that the institution of artistic leaders is abolished at all?

- Yes, only about me. Because five days before this order, the Minister of Culture was asked: do you abolish the position of Khudruks? To which the Minister of Culture answered, and I heard: "No, in no case do we abolish." So this is an order precisely about my withdrawal.

- Is there any motivation in the order?

- there is, digital - "according to the article Number of such and such"; I don't remember these numbers.

- That is, what have you been fired for, you do not know?

- Apparently, this is such an article that, as it were, is normal in the relationship of Khudruk and the Ministry of Culture. I do not think that there were violations or something defaming. Then, you know, I turned 73 on July 31. In Georgia, the law on retirement age is very brutally respected. It seems like a retirement was sent.

- So, upon reaching the retirement age of the Creator of the theater, the author of performances included in the reader on the history of the Theater of the twentieth century, was asked to rest. But the situation , already dominant, is overshadowed by rumors that you seemed to say about Mikhail Saakashvili in one of the interviews: "He is an Armenian - everyone knows that." Robert Robertovich, I know you for many years, I am sure of your nobility and I can’t believe that you are xenophobe or racist. What happened?

- It was an interview. I said that we had, you remember, [Zurab] Zhivani, who was the chairman of the Council of Ministers, he has an Armenian mother. He honestly said that his mother is an Armenian. And I have aunt - Armenian, so what? And in our theater, the main conductor is Armenian, the actors are very many - immigrants from Armenia. Tbilisi Armenians. It's all so mixed! And I said that in the case of Saakashvili this question is hidden. When, let's say, the Americans choose Obama, they all know about him, and this is completely normal - because laws act there. And our laws do not apply. This is my most important claim to these authorities. We have legal proceedings in a terrible state, prison in a terrible state.

I wanted to say completely different. I wanted to say that the problems are very serious and we must somehow approach this problem, and in some connection - that Hitlers still expect us in the future. One must somehow look at it from the other hand - to figure out why such an enlightened nation went after this villain and why this happened, the Holocaust why happened. In this position, I found myself that now I have to make excuses. I turned out to be some racist, but I am not a racist. My friend, a hairdresser says to me: "Do you want us to save you?" I say: "How will you save?" - “Let's say what you said about me, because my name is Misha too” ... I don’t know, everything is very difficult.

- And when to wait for you in Moscow?

“I don’t know, I have to digest all this for another week.” And now I am

I just have to work, because I have the last performance based on the play "The Hunting Season" Tamaza Chiladze is very good. For the past 15 years, I have not staged such a performance. He is so ... not political, but at the same time political. Not specifically about today, but about the general absurdity. Three actors play everything. I have to bring this performance a little now, I will rehearse, I hope to fix something else. We closed the season with this performance, once played. And on September 27 we have the opening of the season. There will be an international festival, there Tbilisi theaters show their new performances.