New York City
Bonnie J. Monte directs Russian satirist Alexander Ostrovsky’s comedy of manners. Gennady, an improverished actor and romantic innocent, arrives at the country estate of his aunt, pretending to be rich and hoping for peace and comfort. Instead, he finds himself caught up in a network of intrigue where forbidden love, spying, treachery, lust, rapacious greed and financial double-dealings are life.