Do not dishonor your last name, Mr. Lermontov!

The chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture wanted to check the theaters for compliance with the concept of national security. Against even the ministry itself

The Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova was enough not to lead the sung stupidity of the chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of Mikhail Lermontov (apparently, he did not read “Notes of Pechorin”, otherwise he would not have been eager to search the repertoire). The character, dishonoring the name of his great ancestor (my sense of national pride is offended, I insist on changing the classical surname!), In the morning of August 2, I was going to check Russian theaters for the conformity of the concept of national security. Completed about the hearings, about public examination. In short, he wanted to surpass the most funny performance of the present “number 13”.

But the Minister of Culture in time remembered that we officially have no censorship and, according to the law, the Ministry of Culture has no right to get into the so -called creative activity. Namely, interfere with the repertoire, dictate ideological angles, and reorganize themes. Perhaps Lyubimova went to the voice of the instinct of self -preservation: national security in combination with all the thickness of the Russian and world classics, which has long been the criminal roots on the stage, is a field of boundless comic opportunities. And this large -scale initiative could become the last in her career.

Enough from us so far, Alexander Bastrykin, in his free time from the rhyme, leading the Investigative Committee.

But that is not the thing. And the fact that the theater’s people are so ready for the worst that they rejected the famous “I do not believe!”. The absurdity was happening so many times before their eyes, crawled onto the stage and backstage, dragged him to the courts and confront the fact of a sudden public insult, that yes - the civil vigilance of Mr. Lermontov immediately seemed a reality.

Even before the explanations of the minister, we asked Valery Fokin (artistic director of Alexandrinsky) and Yegor Peregudov (main director Ramt), people of different generations and experience, and comment on what is happening. Their comments in the context of what began to happen around the stage again, are still relevant.

Comments

Egor Peregudov

The main director of Ramta

"The dozens offended by Moliere complained to the king"

- ... I will be glad if people who were not in our theater and have not seen our performances will come and look at them.

- Yes, they will come, look at Romeo and Juliet on the scene of Ramta and say: “U! Yes, there are all signs of a call for aggression, moreover, the propaganda of suicide, and moreover, the youth theater agitates for sex between teenagers. ”

- These are questions to Shakespeare. Maybe before worrying about national security, it is worth reading the play. Indeed, almost any performance, any play can fall under such wild negative interpretations. Question of desire.

- You are a translator in the first profession. What if you have to broadcast the language of the theater into the language of the department?

- Everything is simple here. It does not seem to me that I myself and what I do is threatening national security. Therefore, somehow I am not going to review my performances. The theater cannot, by its nature, threaten national security, it can only unite people of the same culture, one language. And this is the main task of the theater to unite people.

- Are these attempts to break into the theater is ridiculous?

- I have no feeling that they are ridiculous. There is a feeling of obvious oddity, because completely inappropriate and mutually alien tasks collided here. Anyway, the mathematical equations to check for whether they correspond to an increase in the birth rate.

- Well, imagine: “Russian officers” were offended by Ramta's stage text.

-In the performances of Ramt there is nothing that deliberately offends someone's honor and dignity. But usually people themselves seek and find a reason to be offended. So, for example, it was with Moliere - people who sought out in the text and in the performance mention of themselves and then complained to the authorities. After the premiere of the “tradesman in the nobility”, several people at once turned to the king with claims that the playwright insulted them personally, it was their play.

But it seems to me that the theater is more and more interesting than the momentary agenda and even than someone’s readiness to be offended. So let everyone come and watch good performances.

Valery Fokin

artistic director of the Alexandrinsky Theater

"They will collect college and all Russian literature will begin to wool?!"

- Nothing, frankly, there is no new one for me, everything is already clear. There is a certain twist on all fronts.

- But still, to such an extent, immersing the nation into insanity, it seems to me, is criminal.

“Of course, I should not immerse anyone in insanity.” But the trend is like that.

Well, there is this public council, such a semi -comic body, mostly sluggish, periodically these people excited, but no one paid much attention to them. Now they have been aroused in connection with a “contemporary”, with the premiere of “first bread”.

I think this is a purely formal story, they will talk and forget.

- The technology for checking the repertoire “for compliance” is especially interested in ...

- How can this be checked? No way! The national security strategy is a kind of declaration; Naturally, it comes from the first person. As at one time, the manifest by Alexander the Third about the autocracy. I am now engaged in Alexander the Third and Alexander the Second, I am going to set up a performance, a historical time in which we can see ours today. But then, at the end of the 19th century, writers wrote different things, and what was not there! And always they could be convicted of shaking the foundations of the state. So, unfortunately, we have in our country that occurs.

And with regard to the verification, it is impossible to check anything here. This is absurd. Rave. You can, as much as you like, squeak, write, say "We will check!" How? Will they collect the collegium and begin to wool all Russian literature?! Sophistry and demagogy.

“But the head of the UK set the trend ...

- Well, Bastrykin is a poet. The letter of the veterans was directed to understand whom and it is clear against whom. This is such a story in the spirit of our time. Rotten. And such a concussion. Rotten. There are such periods in history.