INTERVIEW WITH A.N. NEELOV: ON CURRENT ISSUES OF ETHICAL EXPERTISEIN THEATRE

Abstract

Because of the actualization of the discourse on the "Cancel  culture", the issue of the admissibility of ethical examination becomes more and more acute. This issue becomes the most controversial in areas affecting the largest number of people as consumers of content: in humor and in art. The percentage of canceled performances, argued by moral motives, is growing not only in Russia, but also in European and American countries - a society of tolerance and a “culture of cancellation”, on the one hand, and an exacerbation of the discourse about the protection of “traditional values ”, on the other hand, define the scientific interest in this problem. This interview was conducted as part of a dissertation research on topical issues of ethical examination. The interlocutor, Anatoly Neyelov, the director of the ‘Black Square’ improvisation theater (Kiev). The purpose of this interview is to identify private experience of moral conflicts in the artistic environment, the field of business and attitudes towards ethical examination. Within the framework of this interview, a high degree of conflict potential of the topic of eroticism in art was attested. The a preliminary ethical examination of works is requested in order to prevent trauma to viewers, on the one hand, and to protect the artist himself and the institute demonstrating the work, on the other.