Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk detained at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport informs Telegram channel “Attention, news”.
As is known to the authors of the channel, Petriychuk was detained in case of justifying terrorism in the game Finist the Bright Falcon. After his arrest, he was allegedly interrogated by employees of the Central Administrative District Investigation Department.
No official statement has yet been made from law enforcement regarding the playwright’s arrest.
Previously reportedwriter Nina Katerli’s St. She said that her home in St. Petersburg was being searched by her granddaughter, theater director Zhenya Berkovich, because of her play Finist the Bright Falcon.
The 88-year-old writer said that staff of the Investigative Committee came to him on May 4, explaining that they wanted to search Berkovich’s house because of a performance he staged in Moscow. Berkovich’s performance, a member of the Seventh Studio theater group adapted from Kirill Serebrennikov’s play by Petriychuk, depicts women who decide to marry radical Islamists in absentia and go to their suitors in Syria.
In 2022, the performance received the Golden Mask in two categories, the best work by a costume designer and the best work by a playwright.