A.Ostrovsky’s favorite work, written “in one breath” and destined to be the most performed play of the Russian stage for the next 120 years. “The Innocent Parties”—is the story of a woman once deceived by her beloved and left, as her caretaker, to strangers—her little son. He knows nothing about his mother except that she was an actress. Perhaps no one else before Ostrovsky has managed to reveal so deeply the personal drama of a talented person against the backdrop of all the tangled complexity and harshness of relationships in the acting world. And for some reason, despite the title, it turns out that innocent parties do not exist. But Kruchinina and her son will meet one day!