The Dinner Party

By Neil Simon

Dates: Thursday and Friday

May 9, 10

Venue: SPI Convention Center

Style: Dark Comedy

Run Time: 2 hours

Show Summary:

Here is a decidedly French dinner party served up in a chaotic mode that only a master of comedy could create: Five people are invited to dine at a first-rate restaurant in Paris. They do not know who the other guests will be or they have been invited. Tossed together in a private dining room, they have a sneaking suspicion that this unorthodox dinner party will forever change their lives. The males arrive first. Albert Donayn, a used card salesman and painter, Claude Pichon, a bookshop owner, and Andre Bouville, a men’s clothing tycoon. They discover that they share the same divorce lawyer. They guess that he may be their host, and they briefly imagine that they will be meeting three beautiful, single women. Instead, their ex-wives arrive.