Gallery Theater Presents DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER 1/14-2/5/11
By: Gabrielle Sierra Dec. 20, 2010
Gallery Theater will present Don't Dress for Dinner in the arena theater from January 14 through February 5, 2011.
This play, which is described as a boulevard comedy, was a smash hit in Paris in 1987, where it was originally entitled Pyjamas Pour Six. This is the English adaptation which premiered in 1991 at the Apollo Theatre in London. Other terms that could describe this style of play is "French farce" or "bedroom farce". These types of plays have suggestive dialogue, and they usually concern erring husbands and wives, silly servants, and mistaken identity.
Don't Dress for Dinner is set in the present day in a country house some distance from Paris. Bernard and his wife, Jacqueline, have converted an old farm building to use on weekends. On this weekend, Bernard is planning to entertain his mistress while Jacqueline visits her mother. He is quickly out maneuvered by his stylish wife when she discovers that his alibi, her lover, Robert, is coming to keep Bernard company. Add a cordon bleu cook who is mistaken for the mistress and you have all the ingredients for a naughty French weekend. It has been described as a "frenetic case of mistaken identity with more twists than a corkscrew".
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