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    In Ukraine's war-shrouded capital, a play about a murderous dictator hits close to home

    by Laura King, Los Angeles Times Dec 01, 2022 3 minutes
    Cast members of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater company take a bow at the end of a performance.

    KYIV, Ukraine — In a black-walled theater at the heart of a darkened capital, the audience sits rapt as the plot unspools on a stark stage: A murderous dictator's calculated cruelty spirals out of control, and his madness grows in tandem with plots against him.

    A venerable Kyiv drama company's staging of "Caligula," the absurdist play by Albert Camus about a tyrannical Roman emperor, hits close to home, nearly 10 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin's troops invaded Ukraine, setting off a calamitous war.

    The modernist production has been playing to packed houses since July and

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