Mixed Couples
by Boerne Community Theatre
Dec. 15 - Dec. 16 (2019)
The time is 1927, the place an airplane hangar in New Jersey where two couples wait for the fog to lift so their chartered plane can fly them to Washington. Their meeting is quite by chance, but also ironic, as it develops that the four had switched partners twenty-five years earlier, and haven't seen each other since. One couple has settled into suburban bliss, he a professor, she a housewife and mother; the other couple are Park Avenue types, he a rich, hard-driving businessman, and his wife (after all these years) still an aspiring actress. Cautious and civil at first, their conversation turns gradually bitchier (and funnier) as time hangs heavy, bootleg liquor flows, and old enmities are revived. As their veneers crumble, it is clear that neither couple has benefited as much as they had expected from their marital switch, and that beneath their pretense lies aridity, albeit tempered by the witty hijinks they go through to convince themselves (and us) that all's well in their reordered world.
Christine Crowley will direc
[image from Playbill cover for 1980 production]
Auditions 12/15/2019 and 12/16/2019, both evenings at 7PM
Production/Performance Dates: Feb. 14-29, 2020
Cold readings from the script.
Audition form is online at www.boernetheatre.org/productions/auditions
Characters Needed: 3m, 2f
Two couples, 45-55
1 m adult, 25+
.Location: 907 E. Blanco Rd., Boerne, Texas, 78006
Our Website: www.boernetheatre.org
Contact/More Information: Christine Crowley will direct, diractor@yahoo.com for more info.
