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Chernobyl as Theater: Sarcophagus and the Human Element |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: J. Perceval |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,073 Words, 6,376 Characters |
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The Soviets may have been a bit slow about letting the world know about their nuclear disaster after it occurred at Chernobyl in April of 1986, but they're certainly moving fast these days in an effort to rack up some glasnost brownie points in getting out a play on the subject in the West.
Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, was the first Soviet journalist to visit the site of the nuclear plant, a scant four days after the accident. In the months following filing his copy, Gubaryev was moved to put together his experiences and observations in the form of a play. It was published in September 1986 in Pravda's literary magazine, Znamya (Banner). Gubaryev was already well-known in his own country as the author of four plays, numerous documentary films, and one feature scree...
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...ophagus does something resembling a sincere, genuine voice emerge from this hackneyed work, as a disembodied speaker dedicates the play to nine people by name, and to firemen and power-station workers, physicists and calibrators, officers, helicopter pilots and miners, adults and children: "To all those who, at the cost of their lives and health, extinguished the nuclear flames of Chernobyl."
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