Kuopion takana: Kolminäytöksinen huvinäytelmä

Set in a quiet Savonian parsonage, the play opens with the modest dining hall bathed in afternoon light, its walls lined with solemn portraits and a lone piano waiting for a tune. When the parish clerk storms in, clutching a bundle of newspapers, his tirade against the city’s “pretentious” press quickly spirals into a petty showdown over a seemingly insignificant collar. The clash draws in his fiancée, Naemi, a nervous young woman whose attempts to appease him only deepen the comic tension.

Around them, a colourful cast—an irritable vicar, his dutiful wife, a rovastin courting the clerk’s sister Lilli, and a chorus of servants—adds layers of misunderstanding and social satire. Their interactions reveal the absurdities of rural propriety, the clash between conservative piety and emerging modern ideas, and the everyday dramas that erupt when love, duty, and ego collide. Listeners will be drawn into the witty repartee and vivid portrait of early‑ twentieth‑century Finnish village life, all while the humor builds toward a lively first act.