Review: 'Kleptocracy' at Arena Stage
A young Vladimir Putin (Christopher Geary) steps onto the stage, wearing a 1980s tracksuit, quoting a passage from the Soviet absurdist and surrealist writer Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) "How a Man Crumbled" " purringly relishing the line "the best tarts are fat-arsed." He flippantly declares that he doesn’t understand what it means, suggesting that if he […] The post Review: ‘Kleptocracy’ at Are…