How can you make a career and rise in the world? How are people’s reputations created—and destroyed? The play by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky “It Takes No More Than Simple Things for Every Wise Man” has always sounded sharp and topical.
Egor Glumov, a young man from a modest family, is clever and cunning, angry and envious. To achieve a high position in society, he skillfully flatters and plays the hypocrite. He doesn’t shy away from slander or bribery—he expertly uses the weaknesses of his patrons and manages to win over everyone: both a conservative and a liberal, a high-society lady and even a very young girl…