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The Hudor of theater.doc died Mikhail Ugarov
In Moscow, the artistic director of the theater of documentary play the theater.doc Mikhail Ugarov died, according to the FB page of the theater. He was 62 years old.
As the director Marina Razbuzhkina specified , Ugarov died of a heart attack. “The ambulance arrived quickly, but did not have time,” she wrote.
Ugarov was born in Arkhangelsk, studied at the Moscow Literary Institute. Gorky, where he left the fourth year. He worked as a playwright and screenwriter in cinema and on television. He became one of the ideologists of the New Drama movement, held the festival of young playwrights in Lyubimovka.
In 2002, Ugarov, along with his wife, playwright Elena Gremina, founded the theater.doc . The theater has become a unique platform in conditions of increasing repression. There were performances about Sergey Magnitsky, Pussy Riot, and swamp business. Theater.doc is constantly subjected to pressure: attempts to evict and disrupting the performances, checks, fines, challenges to the prosecutor's office.