MIXED COUPLES
FEBRUARY 14 – 29,2020
The time is 1927, the place an airplane hangar in New Jersey where two couples wait for the fog to lift so their chartered plane can fly them to Washington. Their meeting is quite by chance, but also ironic, as it develops that the four had switched partners twenty-five years earlier, and haven’t seen each other since. One couple has settled into suburban bliss, he a professor, she a housewife and mother; the other couple are Park Avenue types, he a rich, hard-driving businessman, and his wife (after all these years) still an aspiring actress. Cautious and civil at first, their conversation turns gradually bitchier (and funnier) as time hangs heavy, bootleg liquor flows, and old enmities are revived. As their veneers crumble, it is clear that neither couple has benefited as much as they had expected from their marital switch, and that beneath their pretense lies aridity, albeit tempered by the witty hijinks they go through to convince themselves (and us) that all’s well in their reordered world..
CAST AND CREW
Clarice
Elberta
Don
Alden
Pilot
Director
Stage Mgr
Lights/ Sound
Leigh Williams
Rita Duggan
Paul Yoder
Allen Rudolph
Robin Cunningham
Christine Crowley
TBD
Komal Bhatt