DONETSK, Ukraine - It was a cold, gray afternoon in late October. On the central square, teenagers handed out flags of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, while watched closely by armed men in camouflage. Heavy shelling from the suburbs shook windows in their frames, but members of the small crowd at the Donetsk Music and Drama Theater, facing the square, pretended not to notice as they filed in for a Sunday matinee performance.
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Actresses perform during a dress rehearsal of \"Marriage\", a play by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, at the Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theater in Donetsk on Oct. 10, 2014.
