Marius von Mayenburg

The Athens-Epidaurus Festival (aefestival.gr) is inaugurating its program at the cool Pireos 260 venue with a feast of shows for the week starting on June 7. On Stage D, avant-garde Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov is making his Greek debut with a performance expressing his opposition to Moscow and its invasion of Ukraine.

Serbia's most prestigious theatre festival, BITEF, has dismissed the stated reasons for Kirill Serebrennikov's detention in Russia as unacceptable and has expressed the hope that other, political reasons, are not hidden behind the charges.