"Teatr.doc" is being kicked out of the new premises. The new landlord suddenly terminated the lease agreement, director Mikhail Ugarov announced this on his Facebook. Russian theater critic Grigory Zaslavsky discussed the topic with Kommersant FM hosts Konstantin Eggert and Anatoly Kuzichev as part of the “Characters” program.

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“Suddenly and under pressure from the landlords, the lease agreement with “Teatr.doc” was terminated. We lost the house that we ourselves raised from the ruins. We move on. A game in the “adventure” genre begins, a quest that the authorities come up with for us. We are ready. There will be a reason for the eviction, it will be domestic. But in reality, it’s the “Bolotnaya case,” Ugarov said.

Grigory Zaslavsky: “Teatr.doc” is a phenomenon. Moreover, all 50 seats that were in this hall in Trekhprudny Lane, and those 100 seats that are today on Razgulyai, do not in any way affect the significance that “Teatr.doc” has in the theatrical life of Russia. And I won’t say that this is some kind of exaggeration and figure of speech, because, in my opinion, “Teatr.doc” in the ten years that it has existed has changed not only the idea of what theater is, but also what he is not. But in a sense, he influenced the change in the type of actor in our Russian theater today. He demanded some new opportunities from the actor. And the changes that took place on the stage of “Teatr.doc” then transferred to a completely academic stage.”

“I managed to find out that there was no such command from anywhere in the high offices and points of Moscow - which, as you know, is on seven hills or on two or three hills, if we talk about extreme points and so on. , someone at some level, quite average or even grassroots, just in case thinks: “No, there is no need to renew the lease, eight months have passed, and goodbye.”

“Honestly, I have always been fascinated by how we come up with political enemies and, in general, enemies of the regime out of nowhere. The authorities should be happy, they should rejoice that there are people who think, who think freely. For example, the Soviet government understood “that such pockets of freedom are needed so that when some leader of the French trade unions arrives, he will be taken somewhere, but for some reason we think that it is better to suppress this, and at the grassroots level.”

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