Theater.doc director Anastasia Patlay was detained after the performance was disrupted by provocateurs

The police detained Anastasia Patlai, director of the Theater.doc play. Before that, provocateurs broke into the performance and disrupted the production. Witnesses of the incident reported this to OVD-Info.

Patlay was taken to the Zamoskvorechye police station. More than ten provocateurs came to the production of “Exit the Closet”, which tells about the problems of Russian gays, and started a fight. The police came to the call and detained the director.

They also report a detained man who was a spectator of the performance. His name is Anton Tkachuk.

22:40 Lawyer Mikhail Ignatiev from OVD-Info, who came to Patlay in the Zamoskvorechye police department, was told by the police that she had not been brought to them. After persistent questions from the lawyer, he was allowed to see the detainee Patlai.

29 August 01:05 Theater.doc director Anastasia Patlay, as well as Vladilena Eliseeva and the spectator of the performance Sophia, left the Zamoskvorechye police department, Mikhail Ignatiev, a lawyer for OVD-Info, reports. At the police department, they wrote a statement about the hooligan actions of citizens who broke into the auditorium and interrupted the performance (according to the latest data, these were representatives of the pro-Kremlin movement SERB). Another spectator, Anton Tkachuk, stays at the police department for the night. He is charged with Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism).