text: The play Moliere, or The Cabal of Hypocrites was shut down after only seven performances in this city.
full_question: The play Moliere, or The Cabal of Hypocrites was shut down after only seven performances in this city. Edward Gordon Craig designed a series of movable screens for a performance of Hamlet in this city. A man who worked in this city advocated experiencing a role rather than representing it in his manual An Actor Prepares. A theater based in this city took a seagull as its symbol after a successful performance of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull in 1898. For 10 points, name this city where Konstantin Stanislavski founded an “art theatre,” and which is a cultural rival of Saint Petersburg.
first_sentence: The play Moliere, or The Cabal of Hypocrites was shut down after only seven performances in this city.