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...tradition and still richest in performance is the famous Moscow Art Theater. It thrives on the heritage of its founder and first director, Konstantin Sergeivitch Stanislavski. There are no extreme experiments in the Russian theater now, as there were in the '20s, but the most carefully experimental is Mossoviet. The pet theory of its director, Yuri Zavadski, is that decor usually gets in the way of actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses pageantry...
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