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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Russian Theatre Stages "The Cherry Orchard" Using Minecraft

The Theatre Times: The “ironic, but reliable” version recreates the theater experience in the finest details.

The Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in St. Petersburg (not to be confused with the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow) staged a brief version of The Cherry Orchard, a famous play by Russian dramatist and playwright Anton Chekhov. A highly poetic and sad story about a disappearing class of Russian gentry, who are losing the usual way of life because of economic and financial hardship has now been staged within the popular online game Minecraft, and the unusual performance was streamed live on YouTube.

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