In Lithuania, the Russian Drama Theater became the Vilnius Old Theater
Despite the name change, the cultural institution is likely to keep the current band, which plays in Russian
Russian Drama Theater of Lithuania was renaming decree of the Minister of Culture. In May, a working group was set up to make recommendations for a name change. Among the options proposed by the theatrical community was the Lithuanian Open Russian-language Theatre. The current version of the name from traces to the end XIX – beginning XX century. Then Komissarzhevskaya played in the Russian troupe of the Vilnius City Theater, Meyerhold visited.
The theater troupe, playing in Russian, is promised to be kept. it was a theater with a star cast. Now the repertoire and actors are changing, says Vilnius resident Natalia:
“This is tragic news for us. Foreigners, Efremov, Taurus. These are my favorite artists. Yuri Shchutsky is just the face of the theatre. You can say a star among the Russian communities. For a long time it was the case that this theater destroyed all pollution by manipulation. There was Rinkeviciene, then the theater was more or less good. Then I lost all interest.
– That is, under pressure, the repertoire is gradually erased?
– Of course. For example, I was recently in Estonia and found out that a man there said an innocent thing, and they grabbed him and took him to a deal, where he was expelled from the country. I don’t want to let things like this happen.
It also became known that another Baltic theater – the Russian Theater in Estonia – did not extend contract with artistic director, public director Philip Los. According to director Svetlana Yanchek, the director damages the theater’s reputation with his social media appearances. In Germany, in Los Angeles, parallels were drawn with the legal situation in Estonia. After that, the deputy of the European Parliament from Estonia Urmas Paet will expel his possessions from the country. Filipp Los has been Artistic Director of the Russian Theater in Estonia for five years, since 2017.