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Onstage Storytellers Play It By the Book, THE MOSCOW TIMES

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From: The Moscow Times (Russia)
Date: 20031211
Author:John Freedman

John Freedman
The Moscow Times (Russia)
12-11-2003
Based on Valery Ishakov's novel, 'Infidelity' is a spicy chronology
of seduction and betrayal.
Two new productions in Moscow continue a time-honored Russian
tradition of adapting prose works for the stage. At the ApARTe Theater,
Garold Strelkov has created a show called "Ivan Petrovich's Fantasies,"
based primarily on Alexander Pushkin's story "The Station Master," which
was written in 1830 as part of a cycle called "The Tales of Belkin." At
the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, Marina Brusnikina has tackled "The Light
Taste of Infidelity," based on last ...

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