17:25 27.04.2017

Company of 'The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret' looking for stage to perform in Kyiv

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KYIV. April 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Actors and authors of "The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret" play are looking for a stage to host their performance in Kyiv, as the Bel'etage concert club refused to give its premises to the performers on April 28, the company manager and the play composer, Dmytro Saratsky (Ukraine), has said.

"I met with the administration of Bel'etage and was told that they received a call. They do not say from whom. They were told by phone that they were banned from hosting this event... we were denied the stage. We cannot perform at Bel'etage," Saratsky said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv on Thursday.

He also said that he met with representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), who told him that they were not against the performance, "but someone was purring pressure on the administration."

According to Saratsky, the actors are ready to play tomorrow at any venue which would have them.

"It turns out that in our country several phone calls from some agencies, which do not announce themselves, are enough to disrupt a creative performance, to prevent people from communicating with their audience... We brought an important cultural project. This is a complicated work. And then we get a disgusting reaction - we are not allowed to perform the play," he said.

According to the author of the play Jonathan Garfinkel (Canada), this play was shown in many countries and had positive reviews.

Media earlier reported that the appearance of a theatre signboard with the abbreviated title "A Holocaust Cabaret" on the facade of the Bel'etage concert hall opposite the central synagogue in Kyiv outraged chief rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman.

During the press conference, director of the play Ilya Moshchitsky (Russia) apologized for this incident stressing that it has been exhausted. According to him, his creative team has nothing to do with this signboard.

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