That man is the group’s director, Kirill S. Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest in Russia, accused of embezzling 133 million rubles, or about $2.3 million, in government funds allocated to a festival he ran.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Theater Director Held in Russia Finds an Audience in Berlin
That man is the group’s director, Kirill S. Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest in Russia, accused of embezzling 133 million rubles, or about $2.3 million, in government funds allocated to a festival he ran.
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I am always so interested to see the art and theater coming out of Russia, a nation which has consistently dominated world news for their aggressive and reckless actions to advance their status in the global theater. I agree with the article, in that Russian art is incredibly progressive ad interesting due to the art's existence under the totalitarian regime of Putin, who has been known to imprison and silence his critics. I believe that some of the most potent art is found when it is being besieged by the government it is created under, and that very same phenomena can be seen on a less extreme scale in the united states as well. I feel that the director in this piece very well is one of those critics being imprisoned for his political views, but through his work, he has not been silenced. I will continue to follow this story and I hope that Serebrennikov is eventually granted the justice he deserves.
This is such an interesting case and I am amazed that I have not heard about Serebrennikov arrest before this article. To me I was taught on the three capitals of 20th century theatre and Moscow and Berlin were the two that always interested my personal interests the most. This to me is both deeply disheartening and positive to see as while Russia is actively surpassing their most prominent director and harming their community in my opinion this theater troupe is still fighting on to carry Serebrennikov vision alive in theatre’s other great European home in Berlin. Theatre in both of these cities have fantastic histories with amazing futures ahead of them and politics should never take a hindrance on either of them or their fantastic creators who are creating messages that the entire world should hear. I hope that Serebrennikov is able to obtain his freedom and get back to working with his troop creating what seems to me like truly moving and innovative pieces.
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