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| SYNOPSES FOR 2009 PLAY SEASON—HIGH SPRINGS COMMUNITY THEATER The Odd Couple (Female version) by Neil Simon The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde April 24--May 17th 2009 Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring July 3—26, 2009 Squabbles Marshall Karp October 2—25, 2009 Christmas Show TBA November 27—December 13, 2009 |
Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s female version
of the comic classic—The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison
has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the
hilarious Constanzuela brothers. Not to be missed, many feel this version is even funnier than the male version.
of the comic classic—The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison
has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the
hilarious Constanzuela brothers. Not to be missed, many feel this version is even funnier than the male version.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a masterpiece of farce and probably the most famous and enduring of all comedies. It
revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of “manufactured” mistaken identity ever put into a play. Set in England during
the late Victorian era, the play’s humor derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome
social obligations. Using extremely clever dialogue, the play satirizes some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian
society. Of course, courtship and romance is also treated with high humor.
revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of “manufactured” mistaken identity ever put into a play. Set in England during
the late Victorian era, the play’s humor derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome
social obligations. Using extremely clever dialogue, the play satirizes some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian
society. Of course, courtship and romance is also treated with high humor.
Arsenic and Old Lace is a comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his
crazy, homicidal family in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he
loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of
homemade elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide. Other family members include a
brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and another murdering brother who has received plastic surgery performed by
an alcoholic accomplist, Dr. Einstein. Written in 1939, Arsenic is still widely successful and loved.
crazy, homicidal family in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he
loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of
homemade elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide. Other family members include a
brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and another murdering brother who has received plastic surgery performed by
an alcoholic accomplist, Dr. Einstein. Written in 1939, Arsenic is still widely successful and loved.
This hilarious play pits a father-in-law against a mother in a comedic succession of squabbles. Jerry Sloan is a successful
writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple is the not so happy Abe
Dreyfus, Jerry’s curmudgeon of a father-in-law. Abe is a funny guy to the audience, not to Jerry. The situation is
exacerbated when Jerry’s mother Mildred loses her house in a fire and needs a place to stay. Abe and Mildred can’t stand
each other. Squabbles is one hilarious confrontation after another until the heart-warming finale in which the oldsters
discover that, really, each is not so bad.
writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple is the not so happy Abe
Dreyfus, Jerry’s curmudgeon of a father-in-law. Abe is a funny guy to the audience, not to Jerry. The situation is
exacerbated when Jerry’s mother Mildred loses her house in a fire and needs a place to stay. Abe and Mildred can’t stand
each other. Squabbles is one hilarious confrontation after another until the heart-warming finale in which the oldsters
discover that, really, each is not so bad.
February 13—March 8, 2009