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" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "

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" Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. "

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" One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed. "

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