Valery Fokin’s comments approach after officials’ call to resurrect Soviet-style ‘arts councils’,raising fears approximately censorshipA prominent Russian director has said theatres are required to approve new plays with the culture ministry, raising concerns of a return to censorship in a more conservative cultural climate.
Valery Fokin, or the award-winning artistic director of St Petersburg’s Alexandrinsky theatre,told the Ekho Moskvy radio station classic plays were not subject to oversight, but that a culture ministry commission vets each new work by a new author.
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Source: theguardian.com