Kathmandu, Jan. 17 -- Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov is worried his daughter Nataliya Stepanovna is still single, and it's a thought that keeps him up at night. To fix her wedding, Stephanovitch calls his friends (and enemies) to ask for suggestions, but nothing goes as planned. Things get even more interesting when Stepanovitch's neighbour Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov enters the fray, asking for Nayaliya's hand. But, once again, things don't go as planned.

Directed by Navaraj Budathoki and produced by Shailee Theatre, in association with the Russian Culture Centre, Bibhaha ko Prastab is a one-act play adapted from Russian writer Anton Chekhov's 1889 work A Marriage Proposal.

In the play, Chekov has satirised marriage conventions of land-ownin...