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Aguijón's U.S. premiere of Sergio Blanco's
Cherry Orchard update is dark and chilly.
Anton Chekhov's famous dictum that if a gun is introduced in the first act, it must go off by the second is reimagined in Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco's Kiev in the seemingly innocuous form of a diving board. No one literally goes off the board into the stinking murky waters of the pool on the Badenweiler estate, soon to be demolished by steamrollers.…