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Written by Nikolai Gogol

Directed by Nedyalko Delchev | April 2017

Luka Gotsiridze as Ivan Kuzmich Podkolyosin

Dr. Carl Djerassi Theater Hall / Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

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The play uses humor as a subversive tool to expose the absurdities and artificialities of arranged marriages in the 19th-century Russian Empire, a practice that still resonates in various cultures today.

Gogol also paints a comical picture of government officials who are more concerned with trivial matters than with the welfare of the people they are meant to serve.

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