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Culture is going underground: meet the rebel army

The longer actors and others in the arts are deprived of their livelihoods, the more clandestine activity will spread

The art of disobedience: Oliver Bennett, co-founder of HUNCHtheatre, as Pechorin in his tour-de-force Lermontov adaptation. Photo: Greg Goodale
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