The Marriage
Och-Teatr w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland
Nikolai Gogol
THE MARRIAGE
Directed by: Janusz Gajos | Translation: Julian Tuwim
Set design: Zuzanna Markiewicz | Costumes: Dorota Roqueplo
Lighting design: Katarzyna Łuszczyk
Cast (in order of the author):
Agafia Tikhonovna – Julia Wyszyńska, Arina Pantelejmonovna – Barbara Dziekan, Fiokla Ivanovna – Krystyna Tkacz, Podkolesin – Paweł Domagała, Kochkariev – Krzysztof Dracz, Yaichnitsa – Krzysztof Stelmaszyk, Anuchkin – Sławomir Pacek, Zhevakin – Andrzej Konopka, Stepan – Jędrzej Taranek
Duration: 120 minutes, one intermission | Premiere: April 23, 2022
Wealthy Agafia Tikhonovna is not a romantic lover — she simply wants to marry to raise her social status. A similarly mercenary approach to marriage is shared by her numerous suitors: charlatans, liars, failures, and scoundrels.
The intrigues of matchmakers, rivalry among suitors, the heroine's anxieties, and an unexpected finale — Gogol's "The Marriage" is a grotesque social comedy with a rich theatrical tradition. Female roles have been played by Ćwiklińska, Kwiatkowska, and Seniuk; male roles by Brusikiewicz, Gołas, Michnikowski, Kobuszewski, Pokora, and Janusz Gajos (who played Kochkariev in the 1995 production at Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw). It was Gajos himself who directed this play for Och-Teatr.