Lithuanian stage director Rimas Tuminas, 70, is working in Israel after spending several decades in Russia.
In Israel, he is undergoing medical treatment and working on a production at Tel Aviv’s Gesher Theater, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reported on Saturday.
Tuminas agreed to help the Gesher Theater to finish a young director’s play, with the premiere scheduled in mid-December.
Tuminas has attracted some controversy in November when in an interview apparently downplayed the Motolov-Ribbentrop Pact, which led to the Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
After his statements caused outrage in Lithuania, Tuminas said his words were taken out of context and the interview was a provocation against him. He demanded a rebuttal from the TV station and that the interview’s full recording and transcript be published.
After the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Small Theatre of Vilnius terminated an employment contract with Tuminas, who is the theatre’s founder and artistic director.
Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the Moscow Vakhtangov theatre. He left Russia in March this year.
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