Friday, 12/13/2024
at 8:00 PM


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Engagement party at the Clench house. People laugh, drink, and dance. Pauline and Alan kiss in front of a lavish buffet. The small group of guests applauds. A picture of the Queen hangs on the wall. In the seaside resort of Brighton in southern England during the early 1960s, there is still no sign of rebellion. Marriages are contracted for economic reasons, and old connections are still reliable. Con men, tightwads, and petty criminals present themselves as gentlemen. So do the fathers of the two engaged couples: Charlie Clench, nicknamed "the Duck," and the shady lawyer Harry Dangle. They are unfazed that Roscoe, the originally chosen groom, died just before the engagement, and Harry's son Alan now only gets to step in as a substitute. Pauline is fine with it, as Alan is the one she truly loves. As the party is winding down, a surprise guest enters the scene: Roscoe's bodyguard Francis shows up and declares that the thought-to-be-dead groom desires entry. A ridiculous mix-up comedy takes its course. – The British playwright Richard Bean (*1956) has brilliantly reinvented Carlo Goldoni's "The Servant of Two Masters": dynamic, cheeky, and in the sound of the Golden Sixties. A Broadway-tested theater evening with music and a lot of feeling.

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