sentences:  She spent most of her early career until "perestroika" writing and putting on plays rather than novels and stories, as the censorship of theater was often in practice less strict than that of written work.She recounts, nevertheless, being frequently monitored by the KGB, and facing resistance from Soviet censors to having her work performed.In an interview with the "Financial Times," she recalls presenting an early work of prose to the prominent literary journal Novy Mir, and having it deemed too risky to publish