Theater.doc received a message with threats

The Moscow theater of the documentary play Theatre.doc received a message with threats. Director Zarema Zaudinova told Novaya Gazeta about this.

According to her, when buying tickets online on the site, you must enter your data. Today, ten tickets were ordered for the play “War Is Near”, and in the full name column it was indicated: “Patriots of Russia will come to you * [beat - ed. ]".

Theater officials reported the threats to the police. Law enforcement officers left their phone numbers and promised to be there in case of an emergency. Despite the threats, Teatr.doc hopes that many people will come to the performance.

“On the day when there are no words at all, instead of condolences, we received threats <..>“ War is coming ”in every sense,” the director noted.

the day before at the age of 62 after a sudden heart attack died The playwright, director and artistic director of Theatre.doc Mikhail Ugarov . The theater noted : "The performances will continue, Mikhail Yuryevich has always been for not canceling the performances."

The play "War is Near" was staged based on documentary materials from the case of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted on charges of creating a terrorist community. “He is not pro-Ukrainian and not pro-Russian. These are testimonies of an ordinary person, far from politics, in whose house the war suddenly broke into, ”the description for the performance on the Theater.doc website says.