Tom Stoppard supported the "theater.doc"

The British playwright Tom Stoppard publishes an open letter on Colta.ru in support of the Moscow Theater Theater “Theater.doc”, which the city authorities want to deprive the premises.

The news that came from Moscow that the theater.doc theatrical group threatens the loss of the site, shocked me. From generation to generation, in easy times and in difficult times for the English -speaking world, Russian theater culture was a source of inspiration and an object of worship. Such a mature culture could not have arisen from nowhere - it grows from new voices, new forms, ideas and those. Wherever I have to work in 50 years in dramaturgy, it has always been so.

In today's Russia, “Theater.doc” is the most important example of the theater team, which, completely independent of the quality of his work, which has received international recognition, carries the seeds of a bright and relevant theater, the theater of the future. He performs one of the main tasks of art in society - reflects, interprets and criticizes the reality in which he lives.

The impulses that feed such a theater cannot be eliminated, but they can be poisoned by the poison of repression and petty revenge. It cannot but upset the fact that this small theater has to again wage the once won struggle for freedom of speech, on the neck of which the state of the state is tightened more tightly. The enemies of the theater.doc will not forgive anything, and therefore now-more than ever-he needs friends.


It is shocking News that the Moscow Theater Group Teatr.doc isTh the Loss of Its Performance Space. For Generations, Russian Theater Culture Has Been An Inspiration in Good Times and Bad, and An Object of Veneration in the English-Speaking World. Such A Culture Does Not Suddenly Appear from Nowhere in Its MatURYTY. IT Grows out of New Voices, New Forms, New Ideas, and New Subject Matter. This is true Everywhere, As I Know from the Experience of 50 Years as a Playwright.

In Russian teatre.doc is Currently the Most Important Example of a Theatre Group Which, Quite Apart From The Quality of Its Wich Has Given IT An International Reputation, Contains The Seeds of a Vibrant and Relevant theater of the Future. It Fulfills One of the Prime Functions of Art in Society, Namely to Reflect, Interpret and Offer a Critique of the Social Environment it lves in.

The Impulses Which Energize Such aTRE ARA Impossible to Kill, But They CanDed BY A Spirit of Reprisal and Petty VindicTivence. With Sorrow One Cannot Help Noting that Battle for Freedom of Expression Which Had Been Won in the Past Has to Be Fawght Again by This Thine Theater. As the Government's Grip Tightns on the Mass Media, Teatr.doc's Uncompromising Stand Has Marked Its Its Enemies. Now iteds Its Friends, More than Ever.