Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, sometimes published in English under the title Too Clever By Half, is a five-act comedy by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. The play offers a satirical treatment of bigotry and
Stanislavski (left) and Kachalov (right) in the Moscow Art Theatre production in 1910.
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Proletcult Theatre was the theatrical branch of the Soviet cultural movement Proletcult. It was concerned with the powerful expression of ideological content as political propaganda in the years follo
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
…the "circusisation" of the theatre. In celebration of the centennial of Ostrovsky's birth, the production opened in April 1923. It was staged by the First Workers' Theatre of the Prolekult in its theatre in the Arseny Morozov House, an ornate mansion on Vozdvizhenka Street, with a cast that included Maxim Shtraukh, Ivan Pyryev, and Grigori…
The Arseny Morozov House on Vozdvizhenka Street, home of the Proletcult Theatre in the 1920s.