Occupied Mariupol’s theatre is the site of one of the Ukraine war’s worst war crimes. Tonight Russia is reopening it with a comic play. The Mariupol Drama Theatre, destroyed by a Russian bomb in 2022, reopens this week with a performance of Perfect Wedding, a farce by English playwright Robin Hawdon, on Friday evening. The relaunch is part of a Kremlin propaganda effort to advertise the resurrection of the city it destroyed and occupied in the first months of the invasion in 2022. Read more: