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Article: Cut and paste; "King Lear" a la Russe.(Theater review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2006
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Who is that can tell me who I am?
Lev Dodin has reworked Shakespeare's "King Lear"--with surprising results
LEV DODIN, the 62-year-old artisticdirector of the Maly Drama Theatreof St Petersburg, is personable andunassuming. In conversation--he speaks only Russian--he is also light-hearted, in contrast with his work, which is stark,unsentimental and serious.
The first production he staged after he took over the theatre in 1983 was "Brothers and Sisters", a play based on a novel by Fyodor Abramov which depicts in rich detail and with unabashed exuberance a community trying to rebuild itself under Stalinism. Mr Dodin feels Russians have become ...