The Lower Depths

From the world-famous play by MAXIM GORKI

A naturalistic tragedy set in a squalid flophouse where desperate people cling to fleeting human connection while trapped by circumstance and moral compromise.

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.