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By JAMES HEBERT
"Don't Dress for Dinner" returns to North Coast Rep. Here's a review from the 2008 production.
In a weird way, farce is just tragedy stuffed into a clown suit. Think of the MacBeths, those zany, sketchy Scots whose ill-advised tries at gaining and retaining the throne get crossed up like a bad plaid. Might be funny, if not for all the fatalities.
Now, forget about Lady and Mr. MacB. It's true the bloodlusty couple has a stronger marital bond than the main wedded pair in “Don't Dress for Dinner,” the farce now running at North Coast Repertory Theatre. But there's no tragic tinge to NCRT's effervescent story of romantic infidels; just a bewitching blend of sharp acting, funny lines and twisty, intricate plot.
The original version of the work came from the late French playwright Marc Camoletti, which explains why all these Yank-accented characters are plunked into the (seemingly) arbitrary setting of a country home outside Paris. (The British actor and director Robin Hawdon adapted the play into English.)
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By bigkumadog on 11/23/2008
A hit the cast melded together into a soup of hilarious errors of comedy. It takes the old sayings of how one simple lie begets more to the extreme. One of the best times I've had in a long time, a must see!
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