The play "Gogol Center" goes to Avignon

The play "Idiots" of the Moscow Gogol Center is included in the official program of the 2015 Avignon Theater Festival.

This was announced on his Facebook by the director of the performance, the artistic director of Gogol-Center Kirill Serebrennikov. “The Russian theater has not been to Avignon for many years. Now it will be! ”He added.

According to information on the website of the Avignon festival , the ideas of the “idiots” will be held on July 8–11 in the courtyard of the Lyceum Saint-Joseph and will become the French premiere of the performance. The festival program will be published in mid -May.

The play based on the play by Valery Pecheikin based on the film Lars von Trier “ Idioterne , 1998) was in 2013 the first production of Kirill Serebrennikov in the Gogol Center. The provocative actions of the heroes of the film, depicting mentally retarded, are transferred to modern Russian reality.