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Vanya Is Alive review " dark Russian satire turns language upside down by Mark Lawson

Omnibus theatre, London Natalia Lizorkina's play traces a mother's anguish when she is told her son 'has not been captured' in a dystopia where words mean their opposite Alya, a Russian mother, worries about her son, Vanya, who has been "sent to the peace". From the frontline, she receives a phone call to say that he "has not been captured". She passes a beggar on the street who stresses that she doesn't need money a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM on February 6, 2025

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