THE MATCHMAKER
Thornton Wilder
Directed by Matthew Travisano
July 18 through August 16, 2008
"Director Matthew Travisano has added some nice touches to the Actors Ensemble
production at Live Oak Theater" — The Berkeley
Daily Planet
A homegrown literary hero, Thornton Wilder graduated from Berkeley High School
in 1915 and hit the ground running. Years after his "Our Town" and "The Skin of
Our Teeth" both won Pulitzer Prizes, he reworked an older play of his into the
wild (pun intended) farce "The Matchmaker," opening it on Broadway in 1955. We
missed our chance to present it then - by two years and tens of thousands of
dollars - but we can now and are very proud to bring it back to our loyal
Berkeley audience.
It's a farce with a lot of heart - along with slamming doors, mistaken
identities, and hiding in closets and under tables - as the irrepressible Dolly
Levi schemes to match the penny-pinching Horace Vandergelder with... herself.
Vandergelder's young niece also hopes to marry a poor artist, but it's a union
only Ms. Levi can make happen - or can she?
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Dolly Levi (Maureen Coyle) charms Horace Vandergelder (Louis Schilling) in
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley's The Matchmaker at the Live Oak Theatre.
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Irene Molloy (Mary Kidwell) and Horace Vandergelder (Louis Schilling) both
point accusing fingers in Actor Ensemble of Berkeley's The Matchmaker
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Dolly Levi (Maureen Coyle) takes aim at her intended target in
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