THE LOWER DEPTHS

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Director : Feisal Alkazi

Cast : Ritvik Mohan Bhagat, Raghav Seth & Mahek Jangda

Born into poverty, Maxim Gorki was orphaned at the age of 11 and ran away from home at 12. Traveling the length and breadth of Russia in the late 19th century, he witnessed the brutalization, and humiliation but underlying hope in the lives of those he interacted with: ‘THE LOWER DEPTHS’, his greatest work, explores the lives of those who live in a night shelter long before the Russian Revolution. His writing puts him in the class of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky. Early on in his career, he took on the pseudonym ‘Gorki’ meaning bitter. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize on five occasions.

Post the Revolution, Gorki was constantly in and out of favor with the government. He was close comrades with both Lenin and Stalin, but his strongly critical writing on their regimes drove him into exile across Europe and the US. However, later he refused to reside in the USSR and received more awards than any other writer.

‘THE LOWER DEPTHS’ received its first production in 1902 under the direction of Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre. This is where Stanislavski developed the technique of ‘Method Acting’. Till today, ‘The Lower Depths’ is considered a theatre classic, and new productions of it are performed regularly in every conceivable language.

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