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The theater.doc play "Torture" was torn in St. Petersburg
In St. Petersburg, at the request of the tenant of the site, the show of the performance of the Moscow Theater.doc "torture", which was planned on Sunday, was canceled. This was reported by "Medusa" with reference to the curator of the performance Zarem Zaudinov. On May 27, St. Petersburg celebrates the City Day.
Representatives of the site - the spaces of the immersive show "Faceless" on the Palace Embankment - were informed by the producers of the theater that they received an order from the prosecutor’s office not to hold a performance. In addition, tenants called from the FSB and threatened to close the site if the performance takes place.
According to Zaudinova, the organizers intend to find another site and still show the performance of the 27th.
The documentary performance of the “torture” of the playwright Ekaterina Kosarevskaya and the director, the former swamp prisoner Alexei Polikhovich, consists of the stories of former and current political prisoners, journalists, activists and human rights activists who were tortured by the police and the FSB. In particular, the actors read out the stories of the defendants in the St. Petersburg and Penza cases of the Network. In Moscow, the premiere of the performance was held on March 18, on the day of the presidential election.