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What have duplicity, back-stabbing, sycophantic toadying, obsequious fawning, self-serving manipulation, blind ambition and unbridled greed have in common? They all can be found in Alexander Ostrovsky's wickedly pointed comedy about a young scoundrel out to claw his way to the top of Russian society. Meet the ambitioius protagonist, Gloumov, who does the climbing and the wonderfully odd people he steps on to get there. |