‘Don’t Dress for Dinner’ a clever farce for Forestburg audiences

If you were one of the lucky ones who managed to catch a Curtain Call Community Theatre performance of “Don’t Dress for Dinner,” you are likely to smile at odd moments as memories of the play strike you.




The play is a two-act comedy written by Marc Camoletti, adapted by Robin Hawdon, and directed by Robert Ponto, with permission of Samuel French, Inc.

Ponto said Sunday during the final performance, the matinee, “It’s sad to see it come to an end.”

He praised the cast for their abundance of energy, adding, “There is a lot of difficult dialogue in the play.”

The five performances represent weeks and weeks of hard work on the part of the cast and crew, and they all pulled it off very well.

On the face of it, Bernard, played superbly by Dale Litke, is spending the weekend alone because Jacqueline, played impeccably by Karen Cannady, has to go visit Mom.

Enter Robert, as played by Lunty, and Jacqueline’s plans go out the window, because she’s secretly having an affair with her husband’s best friend!

Neil Lunty, as Robert-the friend, brings a zany aspect to the proceedings as things start very early on to go very wrong.

Don’t feel too sorry for husband, Bernard, because the whole weekend was a farce to entertain his mistress, Suzanne.

The setting is a renovated old French farmhouse some distance from Paris, with one bedroom called the cow shed, and the other, the piggery.

The set is fantastic, too, courtesy Dave Ambler and Darcy Jahns.

After Bernard realizes that Jacqueline’s failure to leave will muck up his weekend plans, he persuades Robert to act as though sexy Suzanne is his girlfriend.

Robert is initially very reluctant, as he doesn’t want Jacqueline to think he’s cheating on her, but agrees to help out his old friend.

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Leslie Cholowsky
Editor