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To write a play set in a brothel whose rooms are diverse settings for fetishist fantasies, complete with costumes and actors, is one thing. To use this setting to explore delusions of power, revolution, and politics is another.

Requires a (very) close reading to catch all the subtleties (without which it ceases to make sense), but reading it adds useful arguments to why revolutionaries become tyrants themselves.