Special with provocateurs: Director of theater.doc about an attempt to break the presentation

The premiere of the play “Leaving the cabinet” took place in 2016. This is a documentary production about camming outs of young people and their relations with parents. This week, three years after the premiere, the participants of the Prochrevsky movements of SERB and the NOD tried to disrupt the performance. The director of theater.doc Anastasia Patlai told the OVD-Info about how the police behaved and who made a fight.

The start of the performance at eight in the evening. We had practically sold a full hall. When the audience arrives, they first show tickets to the administrator, then at the entrance to the hall again check the tickets and the date of birth in the passport. Spectators are explained that the performance is intended for spectators over 18 years old.

Before starting, I drew attention to two young people who behaved strangely. One of them was large, the other looked young. When they entered the theater premises, they immediately rushed into the toilet, it was a little strange.

Then they seemed to bought a ticket, I told them: "Go, there they will check the passports at the entrance." They checked their passports, then for some reason one of these guys returned to the administrator, began to say that he had lost a ticket. He began to fumble in his pockets, on the portfolio, sweat, blushed. This caused me suspicions, and I once again asked to show his passport. He says: “Oh, I have no original passport. Here is my copy. "

He had a date in his copy - 2000 of his birth. Obviously, he should be at least 18 years old. Nevertheless, he looked quite young, but we decided to let him in. Then all the spectators came in, before the start of the performance, we traditionally say: “Dear viewers, we have a performance about homosexuals. There is obscene vocabulary. If this is unacceptable to you, you can leave the theater premises. The performance is intended for spectators over 18 years old, so we all checked your passports for everyone. We hope that you showed your actual documents. ”

After the performance began, we left with Sveta administrator to discuss our affairs. After 15 minutes, we heard some kind of roar in the hall, and with this roar, these two young people came out from there. The one that is larger, with cries: "What did you show me?" I told them that they were warned, about which this performance. The one that is with a copy, I ask you to show the document again. He somehow, apparently, was confused and gave him in his hands. We managed to photograph him, so I just felt that I would need the proof that he was born 2000.

Suddenly, the one that Big ambal left first from the room, and then returned with 10 or 12 other people. They all had cameras on a selfie stick, they shot themselves, then they began to shoot me.

They say: “You have propaganda homosexuality for minors. We want to interrupt all this, we will not allow. ” I explained to them: “Friends, we do not have minors in the hall. There is a performance, let's talk with you here or go out into the street. ” They did not listen to me, they say that they call the police. On my proposal to wait for the police on the street, they again did not respond and went into the scene zone, which is separated from the hall only with a curtain.

I explained the situation to the audience, and a crowd with a selfie sticks fell out on the stage. And they began to shout offensive phrases to the audience. Then I ran to look out on the outside if there was a police, and saw a dude with a flag with yellow-black stripes and a poster “Theater. Doc is a LGBT cross-breed nest. ” And I realized that these are not just provocateurs on my own initiative, but a certain political force.

Spectators and my colleagues learned in the photographs of [representatives of the Prochrevsky movements] SERB and NOD, and then they themselves announced this.

After about 15 minutes the police arrived. They looked like the partners of this gang, because the police were not going to restore order and protect the audience from the invasion of incomprehensible people. The police immediately said that we have a minor, [asked] who is the organizer. Then, according to these pogroms, we will call them that, the police began to demand some kind of rental certificate from me. And they all began to scream: you do not have a rental certificate, you are illegally showing.

I reply that this is not a movie, what a rental certificate, this is a theater. This is my performance, I created it - I want and show it. Then, in the presence of the police, these people staged a fight, that is, they organized it. One woman [from among the provocateurs] threatened the viewer (it was Anton Tkachuk- OVD-info ) that she would now beat him or hit him. And he, apparently, emotionally, frightened, took it either by the shoulder, or by the neck in order to block a possible blow. And at that moment, as soon as he touched her, there were screams that the woman was beaten, and then three or four people from this gang pounced on this viewer. They instantly put his face on the floor, and then a policeman who put on his handcuffs arrived at him. Anton was taken to a police car, while none of these [provocateurs] were arrested, not interviewed. Although they beat him.

The policeman tells me: "Let's go for an explanation." I told the audience that we would leave and the performance would resume, and asked the police to withdraw these pogroms from the theater building.

Most of the spectators remained, the administrator from the inside closed the door. I took an explanation in the police. Then I realized when a lawyer from the OVD-Info arrived that I gave this explanation to the inspector for minors.

Together with the audience, we wrote a statement about hooligan actions in the theater, received a receipt. Anton received a fine for petty hooliganism. As I understand it, there will be no court. He, and so, poor fellow, fell into a discharge: he went to the performance, and he fell on some other performance.