Four Plays: The Storm / Too Clever by Half / Crazy Money / Innocent as Charged

Includes three comedies -Too Clever by Half, Crazy Money, Innocent as Charged- and a tragedy -The Storm- from the father of Russian drama.

Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-86) paved the way for twentieth-century stage realism in Russia. These plays are populated by characters that reveal Ostrovsky’s talent for well-turned idiomatic phrases and his acute observation of behaviour and conditioning.