"Actress" came, looked at the performance, wrote a denunciation "

The police became interested in the performance of Kirill Serebrennikov. The director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky came a request from the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow. In the document of the acting head of the police S.V. Bolloev asks Malobrodsky to provide a video of Serebrennikov’s play “In connection with the audit”. The audit, as follows from the text of the letter, is carried out at the appeal of the Moscow Public Council on morality and socially significant information.

The scan of the letter is posted on the Facebook director. According to Serebrennikov, “strange conversations with the law enforcement agencies” lasts a month, about the same as the performance “is going on.” “Your performance calls for the revolution?” - “Our performance is a work of art, it does not call for anything ...” - “In the statement it says that it calls ...” - “Our performance has received the Golden Mask premium, it is made according to the famous book that you can buy in the same way To read any book. “And that, all words in it, as in the book? ..” - quotes the director of the conversation with law enforcement officers. According to him, there is no video of the performance, and the police do not want to buy a ticket and go watch the performance.

Publicpost failed to understand what the Moscow Public Council on morality and socially significant information was not. There are practically no references to this structure on the network. We contacted the National Council of social information , in whose tasks it is precisely the “promotion of the formation and approval of moral values ​​in the society and the promotion of spiritual and moral education and personality education”, but the co-chairman of the expert commission Stanislav Dvorko assured us that they did not send a similar request.

"The Public Council for Supporting socially significant projects and public morality in the media" in 2006 was created by the expert council in the media under the Ministry of Culture. The tasks of the Council were formulated very vaguely: the fight against "endless gangster series and chernukha in entertainment programs on TV." Whether the Council managed to survive in this struggle is unclear: there were no further references to him on the Web.

Serebrennikov himself is confident that the denunciation wrote “One of his own”: “The Paper wrote their own, or rather, their own“ Gogol Theater actress. ”They told us the“ organs ”, they don’t say the surname.“ The actress ”came, watched the performance, wrote a denunciation.” “It’s surprising, for the hundredth time, this is what is striking: this is not power, not a bloody regime, the organs did not put the“ Gogol Theater ”actress in her hands and forced to write a natural denunciation. This is she herself! This is a call of her soul! This is her genetic code. It is recalled by a clever Dovlatov:“ Stalin, of course, a criminal. But who wrote 40 million denunciations ??? ”he writes.

Photo: Gogol Center

Intra -section showdowns in the theater named after Gogol began in August 2012, after Kirill Serebrennikov was appointed artistic director instead of the theater who headed the theater for 25 years Sergey Yashin. The troupe of the theater was unhappy with the new appointment, considering that the new leader would try to destroy the repertoire theater. The actors turned to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, to the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers Alexander Kalyagin, and also organized rallies in defense of the theater . Part of the troupe still does not want to work with Serebrennikov and continues to rehearse separately from the new Khudruk. In December 2012, unknown people beat Alexei Malobrodsky, and in January 2013, Serebrennikov announced threats addressed to him - messages with the promises of reprisals began to come to his phone.

Despite this, the restart of the Gogol Center is clearly successful. In early February, the new theater platform was opened by the premiere of "00:00", and the audience who came to the premiere was able to evaluate the large -scale changes that occurred in the theater - the reconstruction of the internal part of the building was on September 2012.

Photo: Gogol Center

"Sino" - a play that Zakhar Prilepin and Kirill Serebrennikov wrote for several years. It is based on the book of Prilepin "Sankya". The heroes of the book and productions are young people born in the late 80s, whose childhood coincided with the collapse of the USSR, and growing up in the gang 90s. The performance is minimalist: of the scenery in it - only "fence" used by the police at rallies. "Sino" became a laureate of the "Golden Mask" of 2012 in the nomination "Small form performance".