The authorities refused to rescue Serebrennikov

Moscow theater "Gogol-center", which is managed by the Director Kirill Serebrennikov, again got into debt. Expenditure of non-profit theatre only grow, but the city's culture Department said he did not intend to repay his debts.

In the beginning of April it became known that the duty of "Gogol-center" is 80 million rubles. But the theater since then spent another 30 million - on productions, actors ' fees, fire safety and food at the theatre cafц?. In the theater, no Director who held the post Anastasia Golub left "Gogol-center" in late July, after only 5 months.

According to the Department of culture, the theatre is considered to be non-profit, and responsibility for all decisions related to money, lies on the artistic Director of the "Gogol-center" Kirill Serebrennikov. "We categorically do not wish to interfere in the Affairs of the theatre. Serebrennikov not only the artistic Director. At the moment he almost takes the direct responsibilities of the chief and characterizes what is good, what is bad," announced the head of Department of culture Alexander Kibovsky.

The view was also expressed that in the beginning of March in the theatre there were problems with payment of wages, and authorities transferred them to the annual funding entirely. "Although this is done at best on a quarterly basis. We helped the theatre, thus completing the first of all the obligations. We have no money", - said Kibovsky.

But he himself Serebrennikov recognizes that refused in writing to perform the duties of the chief, but the response from the Department of culture he came. According to him, over the past 4 months the budget deficit of the theatre was reduced almost in half, according to "Izvestia".

Along with this "Gogol-center" has expended considerable sums on the performance Serebrennikov "to Whom in Russia to live well". Only the choreographer Anton Adasinsky received for own work 600 thousand roubles unreasonably great fees, taking into account the opinion of the ex-Director of the theatre of Alexey Malopolska. Specifically, the result of his incident with Serebrennikov"Gogol-center" and appeared money problems - the Director is required to perform costly staging plan with a lack of funding.

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