Lobos y corderos (Wolves and Sheep) by Alexandre Ostrovski

And we understand everything, as if Ovstrovski was our cousin, as if Russian was our native language...

- Le Figaro

Piotr Naumovich Fomenko (Moscow, 1932), one of the great European directors and the leading light of contemporary Russian theatre, brings Ostrovski’s Wolves and Sheep to Madrid for its Spanish premiere. Under the guise of a comic tangle of confusion, full of hilarious incidents, Wolves and Sheep is in reality, a sarcastic portrait of the provincial nobility of mid-19th century Russia. A high-society woman fallen on hard times, a young widow, a marriage of convenience, blackmail, extortion and forged letters, an honest man prepared to unmask the criminals. Who are the wolves? Who are the sheep? And all the time, the fanatical worship of the god of money is an ever-threatening prospect, circling uncontrollably above the intense onstage comedy...

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