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In 1994, Melissa T. Smith described Sadur's work: "Her prose works, in which narrative perspective is subject to abrupt shifts between internal and external, first and third persons, present a dark vision of contemporary reality. The everyday world,
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was a "brutally absurdist" play in which "Soviet tourists to a
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student theatre. The play told the story of a game of tag played in a potato field which "may spell the end of the world" and was recognized as a "turning point in modern
Russian drama." In 1982, she also wrote
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professor Thomas R. Beyer characterized the work as " us into the darkness of the human spirit as the
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