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A womanizing, best-selling pulp novelist, a college professor whose esoteric literary efforts never sell and the women married to these ersatz friends enter a pas de quatre, dancing dangerously around each other with tantalizing and telling results. In the spirit of commedia dell’arte, David Wiltse’s fast-paced comedy explores communication and attraction, letting the audience in on his characters’ deliciously outrageous inner thoughts, which often undercut and contradict what the intended listener hears. Why not change partners and dance with me?
Returning from NYC for the upcoming production of A Marriage Minuet is director Margarett Perry. Known to Kitchen audiences as both playwright and actor in Clean Alternatives, New York City based Brian Dykstra is joined by fellow Actors’ Equity members Matthew Boston and Rita Rehn making their Kitchen Theatre Company debuts. The cast also includes KTC veteran Krista Scott (Precious Nonsense, Swimming in the Shallows) and newcomer Ithaca College sophomore theater major Heather Frase.
Scenic Designer Kent Goetz (KTC commissioned The Drunken City) has created a world of bookshelves and easy chairs, with secret corners and hidden spaces ideal for deceit. Goetz is the chair and resident scenic designer of Cornell’s Department of Theater, Film and Dance. Associate Scenic Designer is Tim Ostrander. Lighting design is by E. D. Intemann, Senior Lecturer and Resident Lighting Designer at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Cornell. Costume design is by Ashley Huyge, resident production intern at the Kitchen. Huyge created the period costume for The Unfortunates, which premiered in May on the Kitchen’s New Play Festival. Michael Speach joins the production team for the first time at the KTC as sound designer. Stage management is by Kitchen Theatre resident stage manager Melissa Thompson.
Playwright David Wiltse is the winner of a Drama Desk Award for "Most Promising Playwright" for his first produced play, Suggs, which was performed at Lincoln Center. His second play, Doubles, ran on Broadway in l985-86, and his nine other plays have been produced at the Long Wharf Theater, Florida Stage, and numerous other theaters across the country. Other works by Wiltse include twelve novels and more than 50 theatrical screenplays, television screenplays and television pilots. He is the recipient of an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for a television movie, The Revenge of the Stepford Wives. Wiltse is currently Playwright-in-Residence at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut.
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