Don't Dress For Dinner

For the final show of its 98-99 season, Stage Right Dinner Theater presents Don't Dress for Dinner, a British farce written by Marc Camoletti and adapted by Robin Hawdon. Set in the elegant living room of a French country house, the play introduces us to Bernard and Jacqueline, a very proper, upper-crust couple who happen to be carrying on separate clandestine affairs. When both his "other woman" Suzanne and her "other man" Robert drop in for the weekend, the farce follows form with mistaken identities and the arrival of an unexpected character to complicate matters.

Despite lots of dialogue and little action, the play moves along quickly enough to hold the audience's attention. And while the plot isn't the most clever and the humor elicits more smiles than laughs, the talented cast makes it work, with Frank Roberts as Vernard, Carolyn McPhee as Jacqueline, Alan Grill as Robert and Kira Durbin as Suzanne. As the cook persuaded to pose as a socialite, Bethany Jorgensen gets the biggest laughs from the show's funniest lines, and Andy Gwyn provides some lively moments as her husband George.