California Suite

Written by Neil Simon  /  Directed by Mary Jo Bowes

Performances:  3/17, 18 & 3/24, 25 at 7:30 p.m.  /  3/19 & 3/26 at 2:30 p.m.

It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The banter flies fast and furious but Hannah's well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold. The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband "en flagrante delicto" with a drunken hooker. Visitors from London brings a British star as an Academy Award nominee. Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality will be no comfort tonight...  The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared.  Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.