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The DINNER cast includes:

Paige - Vanessa McCaffrey
The Waiter - Tony Konrath
Wynne - Tammy Shanley
Sian - Melody More
Mike - Ross Pipkin
Hal - Wayne Dapser
Lars - PJ King
Director - Peter King
Consulting Director - Steven Chambers
Stage Manager - Janeen Gracer
Technical Director - Adam Mac

WHERE

Historic Key West Women’s Club 
319 Duval Street
No Parking is available

WHEN

Curtain: 7:30 pm
February 24 (Opening Night Party- Open bar, Gourmet Appetizers)
February 25, 26
March 2,3,4
March 8,9,10,11 (Closing Night Party)

TICKETS

$25

$85 on Opening Night

http://keystix.com

 

More about 

Paige (Vanessa McCaffrey), a socialite who does "nothing" but provide "flowers for the homeless" is throwing a dinner party for her husband Lars (PJ King), a successful stockbroker-turned-lifestyle guru, to celebrate his latest book, a pretentious guide on the psychological apocalypse - an insight into what he calls the psyche-drive. She tells him, “I know this meal’s about your amazing brilliant success and everything, Lars, but it’s my statement. It’s my creation – like Frankenstein’s monster.”

For this special evening she has meticulously planned a menu including algae soup which has been cooking outside for three weeks until the green slime formed. Paige points out that "the great thing about this dish is that the leftovers breed, so you never run out." The main course is live lobster which the guests have to decide whether to release into the garden pond or put screaming into a boiling pot. Dessert is the contents of her trashcan - with sugar added, then frozen.

She has invited some carefully chosen representatives of Britain's intellectual elite. There's Wynne (Tammy Shanley), a visual artist/eroticist - and Lar's mistress - who spreads her veggie, hippy free love philosophy everywhere. Her boyfriend, a member of parliament, is unable to come as he's just dumped her and run off with his secretary. The electronic media is represented by sexpot newsreader and trophy wife Sian (Melody Moore) who lets drink get the better of her and aires her marital problems over dinner. The sciences are represented by Sian's new husband microbiologist and genial loser Hal (Wayne Dapser), an old friend, who left his ex-wife suicidal when he abandoned her for younger flesh.

 Completing the party is working-class Mike (Ross Pipkin) who crashes his van and comes inside to ask for help then informs them that he has just robbed the house next door. They are served by a sinister and silent waiter (Tony Konrath) who receives $25,000 cash for his services, raising suspicions about what those services will be.

 At the heart of the party is Paige whose barbs are driven by a sense of morality that the others lack. She finds a like-minded person in van driver Mike who is aware that something more profound than a social gathering is occurring. He condemns all of the guests initially, disgusted by their attitudes, but proves more than able to argue on the same level as the 'intellectuals' that surround him. He seems to be the only appreciative guest at the table.

As things slowly unravel, Paige exasperates them all with verbal dinner games designed to showcase the shallowness of each person. Come and see what other surprises she has in store for her guests as the waiter helps bring about her carefully planned denouement.