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In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardov

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In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardov

In Mayakovsky Theatre's new production of Ostrovsky's "The Forest", Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, a widow in her early fifties, and her friend the housekeeper Ulita are at last played not by 70- or 80-year-old grannies but by young, vivid women, Anna Ardova and

By Alexandr Radayev