In the play "Drunk" reduced the mat

Almost all oscillatory vocabulary was removed from the text of the performance of Viktor Ryzhakov, “Drunk”, which is in the center of them. Meyerhold (zim) in Moscow. The actors replaced most of the obscene words with euphemisms and neologisms (for example, “consult”).

“In our country, as always, the steam locomotive flee, ” the author of the play, playwright Ivan Zarypaev told Izvestia . - Who specifically ordered the text to change the text, I do not know, Kima and director of the performance Viktor Ryzhakov asked me about this. Several obscene words in the play still remained. But then why did you need to clean the rest? "

"Drunk" - the co -product of Qima and Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, the premiere of the play took place on April 6. “Our story is not about people. About those that violate ordinary rules, spit on conventions and, overcoming some prohibitions, they say about the most important thing. There are no prohibitions - so the conversation will be very serious. The heroes of the play are occupied by the most pressing questions: about God, about faith, about love. They are trying to find a simple answer to the main question: what to do? ”, Tsima quotes the words of Viktor Ryzhakov.

The press service of Tsima explained that the editing of the “drunk” can be considered censorship, but it is dictated exclusively by artistic goals.

Irina Pegova, actress of the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhova, who took part in the play, said that the editing of the text was made at the personal request of the Moscow Art Theater Artistic Hospital Oleg Tabakov: “There was an indication from above so that we tried to avoid these words. Changes in the play are connected exclusively with the prepared law, which will prohibit the use of mat in the cinema and theater. ”

“I have the right to my orders. I should not comment or discuss them with anyone, ”Oleg Tabakov explained.