St. Petersburg police mistook the Teatra.doc production for a suicide attempt and detained the participants

In St. Petersburg, the police interrupted the production of "Teatr.doc", mistaking the actions of the artists for a real suicide attempt. Actress Marina Karlysheva and director Vsevolod Lisovsky were taken to the department.

Maria Baronova , . coordinator of the Open Russia human rights project, who provides legal assistance to the theater, writes that passers-by called the police after Karlysheva's speech, who, according to the plot, screamed from the balcony about her desire to commit suicide

Having sorted out the situation, the police released Karlysheva and Lisovsky, taking them back to the scene.

• The performance "Implicit Influences" , which was interrupted by the police, is staged not in the theater, but in the urban space. “The viewer is connected to the action. It is only thanks to him that we will know which route we will take, which text fragments, plastic improvisations and in what order we will perform, ”the description of the performance says.