“The monk-monarch” Stalin will show on the stage of Rostov theatre – Moscow Komsomolets

On the premise of the show told its artistic Director Alexander Pod

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a Play about Joseph Stalin as “the monk-monarch” will supply Rostov drama theatre named after Gorky. About it its artistic Director Alexander Pod reported “Interfax”.

the Play will be created, based on the play “Stalin. Watchmaker” playwright Vladimir Malagena. The latter is not only a member of the writers ‘ Union, but a member of the publishing Council of the ROC.

According to Pudina, play any the play is seen as “confessions of a hero from the rostrum of the Mausoleum”, and this hero is ready to appear before God’s judgment.

Stalin in the play will be presented as “the monk-monarch and the ascetic”, which “wholeheartedly and unselfishly service to his country”.

At the same time in the theater will try to get Stalin’s ambiguous, complex figure, noting how the GULAG and the cult of personality, and the reconstruction of the country after the revolution and the Second world war, “the desire to space,” actually winning the war.

another task of the play Pod calls trying to explain why the soldiers went into battle “with the name of Stalin on their lips”.

Note that in 1989, the Pod was the author of the play “one day of Ivan Denisovich” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn while Solzhenitsyn himself eventually demanded an end to the demonstration performances on it.