Moscow’s ‘smallest but noisiest playhouse’ perseveres with latest documentary project in the face of legal threats and eviction by the authorities Peering at the audience from behind metal mesh as if through prison bars, actors at an independent Moscow theatre have been retelling the story of a dozen people still in jail three years since participating in an anti-government protest against president Vladimir Putin.Written to remember the people detained on the eve of Putin’s third presidential inauguration in 2012, Teatr.doc’s new play has reportedly attracted threats from state prosecutors, while government pressure on the the troupe’s landlord has resulted in …read more
Source: The Guardian
