“People love noise, they love scandals.

They accompanied Stanislavsky, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Chekhov and Shakespeare.

They experimented and performed the most unexpected somersaults in their work.

To understand what the Moscow Art Theater is - come to the Moscow Art Theater.

And then we will discuss the agenda, not the accompanying things, "Prilepin told RT after a meeting of the public control group of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture. 

The meeting chaired by Mikhail Lermontov was initiated by the acting director of the theater Oleg Mikhailov.

The topic of discussion was the question “Is there a need for such a theater as the Moscow Art Theater.

M. Gorky to Russian society? "

At a meeting of the working group, Prilepin said about pressure on the theater from those who “have no idea” about the performances of the past season.

“In the Soviet Union, journalists, officials and spectators who criticized performances came to the theater: they first watched the performances and only then spoke their opinions.

The current situation is fundamentally different from the previous one: we are criticized by those who have not come to any of our performances, ”he said.

The deputy artistic director explained how easy it is to distort the meaning of a work of art by choosing only incriminating fragments.

“It is not difficult to generate pressure.

I am a writing person.

I can compile at one time from Sergei Yesenin, from Mikhail Lermontov, from Pushkin and even from Solzhenitsyn, a set of quotes that will cause colossal anger from the public, which will shout: “How far has Russian culture reached!

Pornography!

Horror!"

And this is used by certain people in certain circumstances and for certain purposes, ”he said.

At the beginning of June, the last premiere of the season caused a great resonance in the media - the play "The Wonderful Georgian" about the youth of Joseph Stalin, where Olga Buzova was the guest actress.

A few weeks later, the President of the Moscow Art Theater addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Gorky Tatyana Doronina with a request to help preserve the theater, which, in her opinion, needs salvation and restoration.

As noted by the press secretary of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky Victoria Musina-Pushkina, "the play is absolutely non-judgmental: no pluses, no minuses."