BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
Neil Simon
Directed by Alan Barkan
January 18 through February 16, 2008
"The entire cast is strong" —
Contra Costa Times
"The Actors Ensemble bunch hits the mark" —
The Berkeley Daily Planet
Precariously poised atop the highs of JFK's Camelot, Neil Simon's comic gem
debuted on Broadway a month before Lee Harvey Oswald splashed cold water in
this country's face. Simon's wall of laughs glitters now as then and we are
left breathless, marveling at the show's surprisingly dark underbelly. The
overbelly (if such a word exists) concerns a couple, Corie and Paul Bratter,
newly wed and freshly installed in their fifth-floor walk-up (six floors if
you count the stoop).
Corie's free-spirited ways clash with her husband and his self-proclaimed
practicality - he's "the man" in more than one sense. Add in Corie's lonely
mom, an aging Lothario living upstairs, and you have a comedy for the ages -
and not just for the Age of Aquarius.
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