Don’t Dress For Dinner draws out ‘deep belly laughs’ of fun
BASE Pastoral Care have been using the Toowoomba Repertory Theatre plays as fundraisers for more than 10 years, but it was the recent performance of Don’t Dress For Dinner that had the at-capacity crowd in stitches.
Base Pastoral Care coordinator Sharon Kirk said it was a great play.
“People really enjoyed the humour,” she said.
“There many deep belly laughs.”
She said $2535 was raised on November 8. She said that money would go towards the purchase of furniture for the new garden and place of prayer created during the Toowoomba Hospital’s current refurbishments.
The play, Don’t Dress for Dinner, was written by French playwright Marc Camoletti.
Director Mark Phythian said it was a “very funny farce based on the relatively simple premise of a secret tête-à-tête going wrong, quickly escalating into a complex web of lies and mistaken identities”.
The play’s synopsis is that Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away.
He has even arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights
and has invited his best friend Robert along to provide the alibi not knowing that Robert and Jacqueline are having an affair.
Performances will continue until November 25. Visit toowoomba repertorytheatre.com.au for ticket prices and performance times.