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THE STEPS OF NEMESIS

In the 1910s the Russian theater director and theorist Nikolai Evreinov (1879-1953) insisted on
the theatricalization of life. Twenty years later Evreinov  who had left Russia in 1924  was in
exile in Paris when Stalin staged three elaborate political show trials in Moscow. Now he
meticulously read the transcripts of the trials in the Russian-language press  collected
material on Nikolai Bukharin and the other defendants  consulted with experts  and finally
wrote a play  his response to the staging of a judicial farce. With this response  he possibly
also wanted to rehabilitate his idea of the theatricalization of life. After all  the
theatricalization of life does not mean performing false confessions  constructing conspiracies
fabricating facts  or casting hired witnesses. In his theatrical theory  Evreinov was concerned
not to make the theater of life invisible. His play is therefore not a historical
reconstruction  but an imaginary look behind the scenes  in which the Stalinist perpetrators
confess to the real crime in the end: the theater.

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