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Kirill Serebrennikov, director detained in Moscow: 'Complexity is resistance'

by Andrew Dickson In Avignon

Once the toast of Russia's avant garde, Serebennikov now faces a 10-year jail sentence. As his powerful, sexually charged play Outside is staged in Avignon, he vows he won't be silenced On the stage of a small theatre outside Avignon, a man paces around a mock-up of an apartment. Music issues from somewhere and there is a sense of a cityscape, close but impossible to reach. The man mutters to his shadow, sees visions…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42pm on July 22, 2019