Marriage Agreement

After twenty-five years together, Elimelech the plumber and his wife Shifra, both former kibbutz members, are preparing for the wedding of their daughter Ayala when they discover that they may never have been officially married. In 1963, at the Broadway opening, Kishon explained the play's phenomenal success in an interview: "The play is about the lives of ordinary people - a plumber's family. It matters, and it makes sense, to write about ordinary people, because kings and presidents come and go, but the plumber is always there. That makes him the most important man on earth!"