Sin and Sorrow are Common to All: A Drama in Four Acts

Sin and Sorrow are Common to All

A Drama in Four Acts

By Alexander Ostrovsky

Translated by George Rapall Noyes

A central theme of Ostrovsky's plays is the inevitable struggle between the demands of personal morality and and those dictated by social propriety. In this grim drama the dramatist sketches a tragic incident arising from the conflict of two social classes, the petty tradesmen and the nobility. From the coarse environment of the first emerge honest, upright natures like Krasnov, the earnest shokeeper; from the superficial, dawdling culture of the second come weak-willed triflers like the ineffectual landowner, Babayev. The sordid plot sweeps on to its inexorable tragic conclusion with tremendous force.

Cast

Valentin Pavlich Babayev - Robert Curran

Lev Rodionych Krasnov and Karp - Marty Krz

Tatyana Danilovna and Ulyana Rodionivna Kuritsyna - Amy Soakes

Lukerya Danilovna Zhmigulin - Vee McGuire

Arkhip - Denis Daly

Afonya and Prokofyevna - Grace Keller Scotch

Manulo Kalinych Kuritsyn and Shishgalev - John Burlinson

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Release date

Audiobook: 22 July 2021