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The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
The guests at Sorin's country estate gather to watch an experimental new play by his nephew, Konstantin. The young playwright's neighbour Nina stars in this symbolist hokum and takes the stage to perform a long and rambling monologue about the nature of a universal soul. After several interruptions from Arkadina, his actress mother, he abandons the play in a huff.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Two warring rural communities in the Soviet Union gather to watch a play that dramatises their dispute in allegorical form. A version of an old folk tale is played out to musical accompaniment in order to teach the watching peasants (and audience) a political lesson about preferring the productive use of resources to traditional patterns of ownership.
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