The Underpants at The Belmont Theatre

The renowned comic actor and playwright provides a wild satire adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Markes, a couple in 1910 whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise’s bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, he thinks the incident will cost him his job as a government clerk. Louise’s momentary display does not result in feared scandal but it does attract two infatuated men, each of whom wants to rent the spare room in the Marke’s home. Oblivious of their amorous objectives, Theo splits the room between them, happy to collect rent from both the foppish poet and the whiny hypochondriac.

Authors

• Carl Sternheim
• Steve Martin