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“Sarcophagus,” a Soviet play about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, was to receive its Western premiere Sunday at Vienna’s Volkstheater. Set in a radiation clinic, the play takes its title from the concrete tomb now encasing Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor, which sent nuclear fallout over Europe after exploding last April 26. The play by Pravda journalist Vladimir Gubarev begins shortly after the explosion when nine radiation victims are brought to the clinic. “Sarcophagus” had its premiere last November in the Russian town of Tambov.