Third Wheel (Oleg Ilyin comedy)

About

A comedy by the Russian playwright Oleg Ilyin — Wedding Night for Three — staged at the Lensovet Palace of Culture. Not related to the French boulevard comedy of the same short title occasionally seen at other Petersburg houses. The story opens on Alyona and Alexei's wedding night, when a third figure arrives whose identity keeps shifting — a house spirit, a con man, an escaped oligarch, an abandoned old man. The comedy runs through the couple's attempts to work out who they are dealing with, and by extension what they can trust in each other. Cast includes Alexei Maklakov and other well-known Russian screen and stage actors. In Russian.