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Aleksandr "Sasha" Molochnikov Talks The Seagull: True Story!
Aleksandr “Sasha” Molochnikov joins The Roundtable with Robert Bannon to talk about his daring and deeply personal theatrical event, Seagull: True Story, now at The Public Theater. Inspired by his own experience attempting to stage The Seagull in Russia during escalating political censorship, Molochnikov reimagines Chekhov’s classic through a bold, meta-theatrical lens. What unfolds is part satire, part autobiography, and part love letter to artistic freedom — as a director is forced to flee Moscow and rebuild his creative life in New York.
Robert and Sasha dive into exile, censorship, comedy…
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