Carleton’s Student-Run Theater Company Presents French Farce, “Don’t Dress for Dinner”
Carleton College’s student-run Experimental Theater Board (ETB) will present the French farce, “Don’t Dress For Dinner.” Performances are Thursday, May 21 at 8:30 p.m., Friday, May 22 at 8 p.m., and Saturday, May 23 at 9:30 p.m. Located in the Nourse Little Theater, the performances are free and open to the public. To make reservations, visit www.sinistral.us/resevations/.
Written by acclaimed playwright Marc Camoletti, recipient of a 2008 Tony Award for “Boeing Boeing,” “Don’t Dress For Dinner” routinely plays before packed houses in Europe and America, most recently at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago.
The show follows a pair of love-affairs that get terribly mixed up at a single dinner party. When Bernard learns that his wife Jacqueline is going away to visit her family, he takes advantage of the opportunity to invite over his mistress Suzanne and his friend Robert. But Jacqueline throws everything off when she decides to stay at home and go to the dinner after all—mainly to see Robert, who is her lover. Thrown into the mix is the party’s Cordon Bleu-trained chef who is also named Suzy, and who is unexpectedly forced into playing the role of Robert’s lover. The story devolves into a spiral of deceit and cunning as the characters try to hide who they really are.
Carleton sophomore Lizzy Cross (Winnetka, Ill.) directs the production, which features senior Robert Hildebrandt (Los Angeles), junior Lisa Otto (Kensington, Md.), and first-year students Johanna Fierke (St. Paul, Minn.), Tyler BoddySpargo (Friendship, Wis.), Katie France (Roanoke, Va.), and Jonathan Hughes (Medfield, Mass.).
The Nourse Little Theater is located in the lower level of Nourse Hall on the Carleton campus. For more information, contact Cross at crosse@carleton.edu.
