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Pro-union socialist nonsense, with a silly number of coincidences...
Terrible.
(Spoilers) I sat through it so maybe you don't have to.
The Inspector bullies the entire family in a manner totally unbelievable for the time, and there is a twist related to it, but it still rankles.
They're ALL vapish, villanous fools that have a connection to the dead girl. I get that working and living conditions at the time were miserable, but I genuinely can't believe how straight they play the rich people=bad, poor people=exploited, or how comically bad the victims luck would be to keep getting tangled up with the family.
To be fair, the sets are good - the factory looks very period appropriate, and the costumes are decent.
The play was first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945. They knew their audience.
