The play "Marriage" is bright, but really still unsolved.
This is an endlessly funny and endlessly sad story about a desperate attempt to find happiness.
The story of the loneliness of a person in a big city, in a noisy bustle, where happiness seems like an unfulfilled dream.
The story of a failed wedding, about how the court adviser Ivan Podkolesin, after long hesitation, succumbing to the persuasion of his friend, decides to end his idle life and get married to the merchant's daughter Agafya Tikhonovna. But doubts and at the same time a sense of ridiculous majesty torment the bride herself: which of the five applicants for her hand to choose, with whom to build her happiness.
