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"DINNER" by Moira Buffini
This delicious satirical comedy reminds us that "revenge is a dish best served cold." Paige is throwing a dinner party for her husband Lars and four friends to celebrate his latest book -- a pretentious “life-style” guide. She pays the waiter $25,000 cash, and serves a menu of Primordial Soup, Apocalypse of Lobster, and, for dessert, Frozen Waste. She has taken great pains to produce a suitable menu in keeping with her theme and has stage-managed the event with meticulous care. But why has she chosen these particular friends, these peculiar dishes, and who is the mysterious waiter she hired from the Internet? As this strange dinner party unfolds, you -- her extra guests -- will be taken on a roller-coaster ride of darkly comic, but very well mannered, and coldly civilized, revelations.
DINNER premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2003, transferred to the West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
WHEREHistoric Key West Women’s Club |
WHENCurtain: 7:30 pm |
TICKETS$25 $85 on Opening Night |
Key West FRINGE presents “immersion” theatre. Due to the historic venue for this play seating is limited.
http://keystix.com or Call 305-295-7676.
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You are invited to be an invisible guest at this sumptuous DINNER party at the Key West Woman’s Club!
“… a group of superficially successful but
utterly dim-witted acquaintances self-destruct over a four-course meal… it
was howlingly funny.”
“DINNER begins as a farce…What is surprising, and refreshing, are the continually dark crevices Buffini explores to uncover deeper truths about the nature of polite society.”
“Moira Buffini demonstrates that she has a sharp ear for the verbal antics of the English intelligensia at their most pretentious and ridiculous.”
This project is sponsored in part by the Florida Keys Council of the Arts, the State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, The Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and private donations.
KEY WEST FRINGE AWARDED GRANT FOR COMMISSIONING PROJECT
Key West FRINGE Theatre (Formerly the People’s Theatre) has been awarded a Dogwood Foundation grant in support of the FRINGE’S Key West Characters project.
According to Monnie King, Artistic Director, “One-act plays will be commissioned from South Florida playwrights to capture the heroic and colorful people who made Key West the unique place that it is. Playwrights will select people like Marion Stevens, an early supporter of artists; Bum Farto, a larger than life fire chief; Peggy Mills, who contributed to the tropical garden esthetic, Eduardo Gato, a giant among cigar makers and supporter of Cuban culture and prosperity in Key West to name a few. The plays will bring Key West Characters’ stories to life to preserve this rich history and present it to new audiences in an accessible and appealing format – the one act play.”
Three plays will be commissioned in 2012 that will be produced as part of the Key West FRINGE 2013 season. Interested playwrights can contact Monnie King at monnieking@hotmail.com for more information.
Would you like to help us preserve this history? We are seeking contributors to help fund the production. Please contact Monnie King at monnieking@hotmail.com or go to the DONOR button at www.keywestfringe.org and make your donation. Thanks for your support!
KEY WEST FRINGE brings SHAKESPEARE to local SCHOOLs
Key West FRINGE Artistic Associate and board member Tammy Shanley and board member Judy Hadley are planning Key West FRINGE presents: "Shakespeare in School" a spring 2012 tour of Keys Middle and High Schools to perform Shakespeare. At this time there are Key West and Islamorada schools signed up – hundreds of children will see and hear the Bard for the first time.
Play selection and auditions will be announced in March 2012.
Would you help us bring Shakespeare to the schools? We are
seeking contributors to help fund this project. Please contact Monnie King
at monnieking@hotmail.com or go
to the DONOR button and make your donation. Thanks for your support!
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