Souls Suspended on a String in the Shadows of a Russian City Under Siege
Charles IsherwoodJuly 22, 2010: War buffs who can settle down in front of the History channel for marathon viewings are decidedly not the audience for “The Battle of Stalingrad,” the puppet-theater piece by the Georgian writer and director Rezo Gabriadze that returns to the Lincoln Center Festival this year after first being presented in 2002. (It replaces a new show of his that was not completed in time for the run.) In spite of its documentary-worthy title, Mr. Gabriadze’s play is not a straightforward dramatization of that monumental and bloody battle but a quirky theatrical poem on the vagaries of life itself.
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