Word: podkolyossin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marriage of Podkolyossin (Kevin Walker), a civil servant, and Agafya (Pamela Thomas), a merchant's daughter, seems inevitable early in the play. Podkolyossin has been toying with the idea of marriage--and trying the patience of matchmaker Madame Fyolka (Chris Hayes)--for three months when his friend Katcharev (Josh Milton) steps in to settle things once and for all. Kevin Walker is convincing enough as the indecisive and bumbling civil servant to make us pity his future wife--at least, until we see her other suitors, an unambiguously...
Large cardboard figures of a man and a woman, one standing on each side of the set, symbolize in a simple way the inevitability of the marriage. As Podkolyossin's marriage plans are discussed, the cardboard man holds out a hand to the unresponsive woman. When the cardboard female faces the male, it is Agafya's turn to talk of marriage and review her suitors. The two cardboard figures face each other in Act III, and the marriage is arranged. The pattern is obvious to all but the youngest in the audience...
...FACT, Gogol's play is not so neatly consummated; the wedding at the end of The Marriage is director Scott Weiner's addition, borrowed from an earlier Gogol play, The Suitors. Gogol allowed Podkolyossin, still reluctant to marry, to escape out a window; Weiner has the wedding guests thwart his escape and drag him to the altar. The ending is more definite, and therefore more satisfying, particularly for the younger...
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