INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The director of a children's play has claimed that its run at a Siberian theater was canceled just days after it began due to audience
allegations that its content amounted to "gay propaganda," local media reported on Sunday
already-controversial law banning the dissemination of so-called "gay propaganda" to children to include adults as well.According to the
Novosibirsk-based ngs.ru news site, the Pervyi Teatr, a youth drama theater, called off a noon performance of "The Princess and the Ogre" on
eponymous work, which was made into cartoon in the late 1970s.Director Polina Kardymon said that audience members had submitted
"denunciations" to the Culture Ministry after watching the premier of "The Princess and the Ogre" on Nov
reviews before calling the anonymous denunciations "ignorant."The theater announced on Monday that performances of other plays scheduled for
Monday and Tuesday had also been canceled, blaming an electrical fault.Following the first reading of the new law in the State Duma in late
in contrast to what are known in Russian political parlance as "nontraditional sexual relationships."
