At the bottom. Gorky M.

more than a hundred years have passed since Maxim Gorky, the play “At the bottom”, and her heroes have not disappeared and are still recognizable: homeless, thieves, prostitutes - people rejected by society - as if they had moved in time without lost their problems, from the Gorky brothel to the streets of the modern metropolis. And the question of the need to choose his position remained just as relevant: “A person sounds proud! Or "a person needs to be sorry"? What to choose: a lie for salvation or bitter truth? The choice always remains for each of us, and it depends exclusively on our ideas about a person and life.

“A person may not believe and not believe... This is his business! A person is free... He pays for everything himself: for faith, for disbelief, for love, for mind - a person pays for everything himself, and therefore he is free!.. Man is true! " M. Gorky

At one time, the play was prohibited for staging on the imperial stage, the first production was carried out at the Moscow Art Theater K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, and K. Stanislavsky himself acted as Satin in it.

In the dramaturgy of Maxim Gorky “at the bottom” it occupies a special place - critics call it one of the best works of world literature, and is put on the best world theater venues.