In Yekaterinburg, the performance of the play «Einstein and Margarita» with the participation of Ksenia Rappoport and Alexei Serebryakov was canceled. This is reported by the local edition E1.RU.
The performance was supposed to be shown on May 18 on the stage of the Youth Palace. According to E1.RU, two days before the playbill was staged, the play disappeared from all sites where the announcement was posted. Information about the cancellation of the show was confirmed to the publication by the organizers of the artists' tour, without specifying the reasons.
Aleksey Serebryakov has repeatedly criticized the actions of the Russian authorities, including speaking out against military operations in Georgia, Ukraine, Chechnya and other countries. On the day the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, February 24, 2022, Ksenia Rappoport wrote a post on her Instagram criticizing Russia's decision to start a war.
“I am very ashamed and very scared. I am against war. I don't want war. And I don’t know what I can do now to stop this horror,” the publication said.
On February 14, half an hour before the start, “for technical reasons,” the performance of Einstein and Margarita with Rappoport and Serebryakova in the St. Petersburg «Baltic House».