Russian Staging of Oscar Wilde Play Probed by Police After Blasphemy Allegations
Local Orthodox church figures say a production of "An Ideal Husband" is profane.MOSCOW -- Russian police have opened a probe into a play based on Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband staged by Moscow’s MKhT theater, which the Russian Orthodox church slammed as “blasphemous.” The probe into Idealny Muzh. Komediya (An Ideal Husband. A Comedy), written and directed by Konstantin Bogomolov, was opened i…