Profitable place

A highly topical satirical play about human venality and careerism, depicting the life of officials, where bribery and deceit are taken for granted. The characters make a choice to fulfil their own ideals, moulding others like themselves into idealists, but to live honestly, poorly and not very comfortably, or to grease themselves unscrupulously for the powerful in order to get their own piece of the goodies.

The director, following the author's idea, uses two plot lines - the contrasting marriage of two sisters to people of completely different intentions and status, and the fates of the two grooms who make their way in different ways. Everything is sold and everything is bought-brides, workers, thoughts. Deep dialogues, accurately reflecting in every word the characters and moods of the characters, make the audience become eyewitnesses and participants in the lives of the characters.

The young official Zhadov, trying to serve honestly, finds himself under such pressure from circumstances and the way of society that he retreats from his ideals, unable to find the strength to refrain from crime and sells his soul, but promises to ‘wait for the time when the bribe-taker will fear the judgement of God more than the criminal’. The corrupt system of the world is such that it becomes clear that Zhadov has a long time to wait for change....