Don’t Dress For Dinner
Pahiatua Repertory has a hit on its hands with Don’t Dress For Dinner.
Six experienced actors carry a hilarious play built round infidelity, creative inventions of the truth and continuously changing circumstances.
The show is a continuous giggle which frequently erupts into outright laughter for the audience.
Tuesday night’s final dress rehearsal indicated the show was ready for the public and guests thoroughly enjoyed it, just as audiences will throughout the season.
Bernard (Ryan Little) invites his best friend Robert (Michael Moran), his actress girlfriend Suzanne (Karen Webster) and Suzette — a cook (Talitha Vandenberg) to his country house for the weekend anticipating his wife Jacqueline (Vanessa Coogan) will visit her mother. She doesn’t when she finds Robert — her lover — is coming for the weekend.
Timing is everything in this show and it is carried through superbly as different cast members enter and exit the lounge.
Misunderstandings compound. As Suzette says “This delicate situation is becoming more indelicate by the minute” and after her fourth change of role she says “I should get an Oscar for this”.
All the cast should. Director Ngaire Ngatuere has the cast in full command of a challenging script, the show building nicely to a climax when Suzette’s aggressive husband George (Graeme Vial) turns up.
Don’t miss this hilarious adult comedic farce which opened at the Regent Theatre Pahiatua on Thursday November 29 until December 8.
■ Tickets Adults: $27, Seniors and students $25 from Boho Delhi 115 Main Street Pahiatua Phone 06 376-6227 (Cash only). Door sales available.