Don't Dress for Dinner
This farce comedy was originally written in French and was then translated to English. It ran for two years in London's West End to great success.

The quick-witted story centers around mistaken identities, affairs and multiple cover-ups. I played husband Bernard (a real jerk) who starts it all and, by the end, gets what's coming to him.

This play was a lot of fun as well as a mental challenge. The pace was fast and furious and the text could be quite tricky at times — lots of similar lines with small, but important differences. We actors knew that we had to get our lines exactly right as no other character knew exactly what our own character knew. Fortunately, the cast, crew and director (Barbara Huntington) were real pros. The audiences laughed a lot and really enjoyed it — particularly those ladies over 60!

I enjoyed playing a "snot" and really had a good time with it. It was a pleasure to be able to be really snide — as I'm most often cast as a "nice guy."

Though most every character in the play was having a dalliance of some kind, mine seemed to garner the most audience disdain. They seemed to particularly enjoy it when I was slapped, blackmailed and had drinks & a bowl of cooking batter thrown on me (which made for some fast, and sometimes sticky, changes).

After the show, I had several audience members tell me that 'you must be really good because I don't like you very much.' I took that as a sign that I'd done my job well.

The 'Dinner' cast: Suzette (Delinda Kay Abbott), Robert (Michael Collins), Suzanne (Julie Berlin), George (Brad Peach), Bernard (Trevor) and Jacqueline (Donna Marie Dylan).