According to the news of Teatr magazine, the artistic director of the Maly Theater, Yuri Solomin, published a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding the preservation of the MOST Theater.
According to the order of the Moscow Ministry of Culture, from March 29, the MOST Theater should merge with the Mossovet Theater. However, during the discussions, the heads of cultural institutions decided that this would be a mistake, as both theaters had a fundamentally different mission.
“Two theaters with a completely different history, completely different tasks and organization of the creative process are completely formally linked,” Solomin writes in his letter. – Student theater cannot be combined with any professional theater – it operates in a special regime that does not coincide with the professional theater regime. It aims to enlighten and educate students in Moscow historically, ”Solomin explained in his speech to the president.
Irina Bolshakova, director of the MOST Theater, also opposed the merger as a single institution.
Earlier it was known that the Theater of Satire. to connect With “Dzhigarkhanyan’s Progress Scene” at the end of May.
Source: Gazeta
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