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THE WEDDING — SHORT SYNOPSIS
On the eve of his wedding, chaotic lawyer Thanasis Vakontios is dragged into a national scandal: Jenny, the Prime Minister’s secretary and parliamentary candidate, has mysteriously vanished days before the elections. Everyone has a different theory, kidnapping, political sabotage, forbidden love. Thanasis gathers the entire government at his bachelor party to reveal the “culprit,” only for Jenny to arrive hand-in-hand with the French President François, announcing their wedding. Political panic dissolves, misunderstandings explode, and Thanasis finally faces the truth: tomorrow, against all odds, he is getting married.
THANASIS VAKONTIOS – From “Lebowski-Lawyer” to “Fake Poirot”
Role:
Still the central comic engine. Now he’s a chaotic “detective–lawyer” who’s supposed to get married… while investigating a political disappearance.
Traits (in Part II):
Same motor-mouth, same manic riffs, same debt/poverty vibes.
Now also a self-styled detective: he builds “theories” out of random stories (wardrobe, Swedish guy, president of big team).
Terrified of marriage, so he uses the case as an unconscious (or half-conscious) escape hatch.
But he has a real sense of loyalty: he does try to solve the Jenny case and help the country.
Function in The Wedding:
Glues all the story threads together: elections, disappearance, wedding, bachelor party.
Turns random anecdotes (Sakis, Tzimaras’ sister, Karantamárglou, the call center girl) into pieces of a “grand mystery”.
Organizes the Frontier finale like a crime story denouement: gathers everyone and announces the truth.
Accidentally lands on the right answer (François + Jenny) through a mix of logic, misunderstanding and pure luck.
Becomes the guy who both saves the elections and actually goes through with the wedding (!!!).
Relation to Part I:
Same shambolic anti-hero, but in Part I he “solves” a Facebook scandal; in Part II he “solves” a disappearance.
In both plays: out of his depth, overconfident, strangely effective.
RITA PORTOKALOGLOU – The Ultimatum Bride
Role:
Still the tragicomic fiancée, but now she’s on the eve of the wedding, not at its collapse. She’s the pressure cooker under Thanasis.
Traits:
Emotional, jealous, funny, razor-tongued.
Knows exactly who she’s dealing with and still wants the wedding as proof that she “matters”.
Oscillates between domestic comedy and gangster-style threats
Arc in Part II:
Starts issuing the ultimate ultimatum: “On Sunday we get married, or we are finished.”
Fears that the “case” is just an excuse to cancel or sabotage the wedding.
Gets dragged into the investigation via Loula and the EYP trick; she’s actually the one who suggests tracking Jenny’s phone.
At Frontier, she calls out Thanasis’ nonsense but still stands next to him, heading into marriage.
Ends with the wedding confirmed — she “wins” the battle, even if she’ll probably suffer later.
Function:
Personal stakes: without Rita, the whole story would just be politics; she makes it a romantic farce.
She’s also accidentally clever: the N.I.A / phone idea is crucial to finding Jenny.
LOULA GONATA – First Lady in Crisis, Again
Role:
Once more, the Prime Minister’s wife and emotional core — this time between jealousy, political fear, and guilt over her own snooping.
Traits:
Sensitive, patriotic, still wounded from Part I.
Capable of spying (Facebook, again!), and now outright hacking Jenny’s privacy a second time.
Torn between moral shame and survival instincts (save elections, save party).
Arc in Part II:
Comes to Thanasis not for divorce now, but for discreet damage control over Jenny’s disappearance.
Secretly uses Jenny’s old Facebook password again → discovers the “Proedran” chats with Narlian.
Reads the situation as political betrayal: Jenny + opposition leader = national disaster.
Personally goes to the hotel to wake Jenny up emotionally, like a big sister: “σε αγαπάμε, Τζένη”.
In the end, discovers it’s actually François, not Narlian. Political damage = zero, romantic chaos = maximum.
Function:
Bridge between personal emotion and state politics.
She legitimizes Thanasis’ involvement: if the First Lady trusts him, we accept the farce.
With Rita, she forms the new “female axis” that moves the plot more than the men do.
THOMAS GONATAS – Prime Minister in Pre-Election Panic (Reloaded)
Role:
Same PM, new crisis: now it’s not Facebook flirting but missing candidate + election polls + bachelor party farce.
Traits:
Still rational, weighed down by numbers, but lost in the emotional labyrinth around him.
Obsessive about “ψαλίδα”, while truly caring whether Jenny is alive and safe.
Continues to rely on Tsiokos and under-estimate how insane the situation looks.
Arc in Part II:
Starts bewildered: wants answers about Jenny and the polls, not theories and riddles.
Gets bombarded by everyone’s “opinions” at Frontier and nearly breaks.
Receives François + Jenny hand-in-hand as a double shock: personal confusion + political relief.
Ends again saved by circumstances and by Thanasis’ weird competence.
Function:
Represents the state being jerked around by small private obsessions.
His presence at the bachelor party underlines how blurred the line is between “private event” and “state affair”.
GEORGE TSIOKOS – Minister of the Gap
Role:
Still the spin doctor / vote counter. Here he becomes also a quasi-villain suspect in the disappearance, then redeemed.
Traits:
Talks in poll jargon even in private emotional moments.
Sees everything through the lens of percentages and damage control.
Uses N.I.A without blinking to track Jenny; thinks more about communications than about ethics.
Arc in Part II:
At first tries to frame Orestis in his head as the obvious suspect.
Gets suspected back by Thanasis and Orestis.
Personally confronts Jenny at the hotel in disguise (“room service”).
Convinces her to withdraw candidacy for the sake of the polls, exploiting her heartbreak.
At the end, is cleared: he wasn’t the lover; he just weaponized the situation politically.
Function:
Embodies the idea that politics will use everything, including heartbreak, for the “gap”.
Provides a constant comic refrain: no matter what’s happening, he’s thinking, victory”.
JENNY – From “Lagoudaki” to “Runaway Almost–First Lady”
Role:
The former scandal center is now missing, in love with a foreign leader, and crucial for the elections.
Traits:
Still “Jennaki-lagoudaki”: sentimental, romantic, dramatic, a bit naïve but not stupid.
In Part II she’s more active emotionally: she chooses to disappear for love.
She’s easily influenced by whoever talks to her last (first François, then Tsiokos, then Loula).
Arc in Part II:
Hides in the luxury hotel, living a “prisoner of love” fantasy.
Believes in François’ promise to make her First Lady of France.
Gets emotionally destroyed by Tsiokos’ revelation about Orestis and the new girlfriend.
Confesses everything to Loula once she realizes she’s been used.
Appears at Frontier hand-in-hand with François: the “double wedding” bomb, her fairy-tale ending.
Function:
Catalyst for the whole plot: her disappearance drives the investigation, the panic, and the bachelor-turned-whodunit.
She helps tie Part I and Part II together: still the same woman caught between power and love, but now she “escapes the system” entirely by running off with a foreign president.
ORESTIS – From Fake Proedros to Serial Lover.
Role:
Still the PM’s driver, this time ex-lover of Jenny and current lover of Foteini. Perpetual emotional chaos.
Traits:
Loyal, emotional, simultaneously simple and strangely perceptive.
Honest about his own “I am not made for just one woman” identity.
Easily manipulated by stronger personalities (Thanasis, Jenny, Foteini, Tsiokos).
Arc in Part II:
Has already cheated on Jenny and moved on to Foteini, but still “loves her in his own way”.
Follows Tsiokos, spies at the hotel, overhears Jenny → becomes partial witness to the truth.
Switches from suspect to key informant.
At the end, proposes spontaneously to Foteini, offering a third wedding just for balance.
Function:
Emotionally connects Jenny to Foteini and to the PM.
His confusion about “λαγουδίνα” vs “κουνελάκι” is pure comic fuel and symbol of messy male desire.
The “free bird / cage” motif lets you track his evolution from macho cliché to someone willing (maybe) to commit.
FOTEINI – From Waitress to Reporter to Chorus (Fani’s stage Successor)
Role:
Replaces Fani from Part I. Ex-waitress at Frontier, now journalist and Orestis’ new girlfriend; also serves as a kind of narrator / Greek chorus.
Traits:
Sassy, sharp, self-aware.
Speaks directly to the audience, frames the action, remembers Part I.
Emotionally invested yet able to comment from the outside.
Function in Part II:
Opens the play with a recap of Part I (“The divorce”) and sets up The Wedding as a sequel.
Constantly undercuts male vanity (Thanasis, Orestis, Tsiokos) with blunt lines.
At Frontier, she is the DJ, the emotional moderator, and the one who often voices what the audience is thinking.
Her on-the-spot engagement with Orestis gives the play its final comic escalation: “3 γάμοι αύριο”.
Relation to Fani (Part I):
She literally says she “played Fani” and now plays herself as Foteini.
Takes over the “Greek chorus of women” function: scornful, funny, but with a heart.
FRANÇOIS – The French President, Now Full Romantic Lead
Role:
From cameo in Part I to full romantic bomb in Part II: the secret lover behind Jenny’s disappearance and one half of the double wedding.
Traits:
Still charming, still broken Greek, still loves Greek women.
Here he’s not just a client free of a past marriage, but also an active seducer and decision-maker.
Completely unfazed by the Greek political chaos.
Function in Part II:
His existence explains the “foreign lover / president of big team” confusion in Thanasis’ theory.
Provides the happy ending that is both ridiculous and oddly satisfying: Jenny really becomes a kind of “First Lady”.
Turns the bachelor party into a weird international summit: Greek PM, Greek minister, French President, missing secretary bride.
Minor but Colorful in The Wedding
SAKIS – From Plumber to Crime Boss
Offstage but omnipresent through calls.
For Thanasis he’s forever “the plumber I took to Fostiras for free”.
In reality: Mob boss, arrested on the news.
Function:
Comic punchline about Thanasis’ total disconnect from reality.
Gives Thanasis his next “case” right at the end, so he goes into married life exactly as we met him: called to a mess he doesn’t understand.
JIMMY / TZIMARAS – The Best Man Who Barely Makes It
Old friend with the legendary Zastava.
Always half-broken, half-heroic.
Function:
Represents Thanasis’ budy world.
Embodies the idea that even the wedding logistics are fragile and comic.
SOTIRIS KARANTAMAROGLOU – The Football Wall
Star defender of Fostiras, hero of Thanasis.
Injured, “the worst news” for Thanasis, partly because he can’t attend the bachelor.
His story and the “president of big team” anecdote fuel one of Thanasis’ wrong theories about Jenny
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