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A Far Eastern Russian region tried to ban a New Year's production of Cinderella claiming it contained a subliminal political message about contested time zone changes, reports said Wednesday. Authorities in Kamchatka targeted the play after audiences responded strongly at an apparent parallel with a hugely controversial change to bring the far-flung volcanic region closer to Moscow time. Following a decree from President Dmitry Medvedev, the Kamchatka region last year moved to a time zone that is only eight hours rather than nine hours ahead of Moscow, a move that has sparked street protests. During the show, in the region's main city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, audiences began furiously applauding a scene where the king turns the clock back to keep Cinderella at the ball. "At the fifth show - which most unfortunately happened to be attended by a close aide of the regional governor - the scene where Cinderella does not leave the ball aroused particularly passionate applause," the former governor of Kamchatka, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, wrote in his blog. "The governor was informed and he ordered that the play should be banned," he said. The Kommersant daily, quoting actors and employees of the theater, confirmed the ban. However, "I know that local media reported about alleged attempts to ban our show, but nothing like that happened. I have no idea where all those rumors came from," a manager of the Kamchatka Theater of Drama and Comedy told RIA Novosti. AFP |
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