A. N. Ostrovsky: Wood

Two provincial actors, the comedian Lucky and the tragedian Unlucky, meet while searching in vain for an engagement in the Russian countryside. Their journey together takes them to a farmhouse where the landowner Gurmyžská is trying to deprive her niece of her inheritance. This is the starting point of the comedy classic of Russian theatre A. N. Ostrovsky. The radio adaptation was directed by Jiří RollPersons and cast: Raisa Pavlovna Gurmyzhskaya, widow, a rich landowner (Svetla Amorta), Axinia Danilovna, her distant relative, poor girl (Marta Vancurova), Yevgeny Apollonovich Milonov (Josef Bek), Uar Kirillovich Bodaev, former cavalryman (František Hanus), Ivan Petrovich Vosmibratov, buyer, trading with forest (Čestmír Řanda), Peter, his son (Ladislav Trojan), Alexei Sergeyevich Bulanov, an uneducated young man (Jan Faltýnek), Gennady the Unlucky, a country actor (Luděk Munzar), Arkady Stastlivets, a country actor (Lubomír Lipský), Karp, servant of Gurmyžská (Svatopluk Skládal) and Ulita, Sprouts (Miriam Kantorkova).