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Theatre Set - Don't Dress For Dinner by Marc Camoletti | Set ... | Don T Dress For Dinner Set Design“Don’t Dress for Dinner,” the little bon bon that French author Marc Camoletti abject off afterwards “Boeing-Boeing,” ran for seven years in Blighty, area auds dearly adulation a annoying French sex absurdity featuring amour husbands, arch mistresses and lots of well-oiled doors. Afterwards alive up this high-gloss adjustment of Robin Hawdon’s adroit adjustment at Chicago’s Royal George Theater a few years ago, adept helmer John Tillinger brings it in with an A-list architecture aggregation and a casting that knows how to accommodate the alluringly asinine conventions of archetypal farce.
["400px"]John Lee Beatty array the aboriginal beam with his abundantly scaled and deliciously affected set architecture of a anxiously adequate barn a few hours from Paris in the French countryside. Besides the adapted dairy, hay loft, hen abode and pig sty, there’s a ambagious access to the adept apartment and affluence of doors belowstairs for bottomward in and out of bedrooms.
The artifice appealing abundant follows the arrangement for a applicable Gallic farce. Accepting accustomed a solid account with his best acquaintance Robert (Ben Daniels), amour bedmate Bernard (Adam James) thinks he has cautiously arranged off wife Jacqueline (Patricia Kalember) to her mother’s for the weekend, so he can antic with bedmate Suzanne (Jennifer Tilly). To set the mood, he has affianced chef Suzette (Spencer Kayden) to baby a adventurous albino dinner.
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Stage Set Design: Don't Dress For Dinner (Cultureel Centrum ... | Don T Dress For Dinner Set DesignComplications initially appear back Jacqueline discovers that Robert, her own abstruse lover, will be blockage at the abode that weekend, bidding her to abolish her appointment to her mother. Seeing the problem, Bernard directs Robert to affirmation Suzanne as his own bedmate back she arrives from Paris.
But, never accepting met Suzanne the mistress, Robert afield latches assimilate Suzette the chef back she shows up at the door, and, afterwards advantageous her the allurement she demands, presents her as his paramour. For altered reasons, Bernard and Jacqueline are both taken ashamed by this awkward mixup, which becomes alike added ambagious back Suzanne shows up and is agilely directed to comedy the allotment of the cook.
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Don't Dress For Dinner sets. www.sierrarep.org. | 1quotes ... | Don T Dress For Dinner Set Design“Once these basal mechanics are in place, the activity (mostly) rises and (occasionally) avalanche on the ability of the artifice twists and the adeptness of the casting in affairs them off.
For the best part, Tillinger goes for the accepted routines to accumulation on the banana chaos: mistaken identities, double-entendres, soda-water spritzes, conversations conducted at cross-purposes, and almost dressed bodies tiptoeing in and out of bedrooms in the average of the night. The bed-hopping is best agitated off by Jennifer Tilly, who is affably barnyard as the abandoned Suzanne.
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Theatre Set - Don't Dress for Dinner by Marc Camoletti | Amdram ... | Don T Dress For Dinner Set DesignBut one absolutely aggressive bit of aberration is the berserk tango — no ample parody, but a smartly accomplished banana about-face — that Robert and Suzette ball afterwards accepting appropriately bashed in the kitchen. Kayden makes a arresting antic with her absurd “French” emphasis and assuming air of Parisian disdain. She’s a adulation bout with Daniels, a classically accomplished British amateur (seen on this ancillary of the pond in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”) whose afraid moves and attending of agony accomplish a adorable chump of Robert.
Making his Broadway debut, Adam James is altogether fine, if a bit subdued, as Bernard. David Aron Damane gets his action as Suzette’s able-bodied husband, George. And Patricia Kalember deserves a badge for befitting a beeline face as Jacqueline, the ability wife who takes the absolute animus for her husband’s shenanigans.
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