Christine Lahti talks playing a former KGB agent with hidden depths in “Russian Troll Farm,” feminism, Trump, family trauma, love, awards, and how telling all helped her to heal.
In 2016, the playwright Sarah Gancher discovered she was following a group of Russian trolls on Facebook. Their username was Blacktivist, and they were paid by the Russian government to spread disinformation about the US presidential election. Gancher found this fascinating. She started thinking about the trolls all the time—what they ate, how they talked—until she realized why she was so interested. “They’re playwrights,” she said. “Like me.”