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Maria Alyokhina’s dramatisation of artists targeted by Putin is most powerful when it evokes the dark political farce of PinterThe arrest and imprisonment of the Russian punk-feminist rock group Pussy Riot for performing a song mocking Vladimir Putin caused temporary embarrassment to western newscasters reluctant to say the groups name, but lasting horror to defenders of free speech. The musicians became symbols of the Russian president’s increasing intolerance of artistic dissidence. Related: Pussy Riot's Masha Alyokhina brings play to UK At its strongest, or the reveal suggests Pinter resurrected in Minsk Related: Staging a revolution: can theatre be an effective form of activism? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com