Latvian actor Gundars Abolins announced on his Facebook page (Meta’s owner is known as an extremist in Russia and has been banned) that his play “Gogolis.Nature Morte” with Chulpan Khamatova has been canceled by the decision of New Riga Theater artistic director Alvis. hermani
“The decision to cancel the show is the decision of our artistic director, Alvis Hermanis, with whom we agreed (some easier, some harder) after the penultimate rehearsal yesterday,” Abolins said.
The artist noted that Khamatova was preparing for the performance and learned the text in Russian, Ukrainian and Latvian. According to Abolins, stage director Uldis Tirons also conducted a large-scale cultural study devoted to the life of writer Nikolai Gogol.
Shows would also be held on 1, 2, 3, 4, 30, 31 March, 1 and 2 April. Tickets will be refunded to buyers. Besides Khamatova, Latvian actors Gundars Abolins and Kaspars Znotins also took part in the production.
Previously Tirons sought the reason for the cancellation of the performance with Khamatova.