Hanover Community Players present Unnecessary Farce
HANOVER – The groan-worthy title isn’t exactly inspiring (the play’s much better than the title would lead you to believe), but it does give you some indication where this show is headed, officials say.
They call it “farce comedy at its most basic.”
Unnecessary Farce will be on stage at the Hanover Civic Theatre at 7pm on May 1 and at 2pm on May 2 and May 3.
Tickets are ($20 for adults and $16 for students aged 13 to 17) can be purchased at hanovercommunityplayers.ca or by calling the box office at 419-506-6902.
On stage, there will be people entering and exiting in rapid succession through multiple doors (eight of them – which seems excessive, but sure enough, they all get well used).
Quirky characters enter at inopportune moments, people are caught in compromising positions, several end up in their underwear at various points and one-liners fly fast and furious, officials say in a press release.
“None of it is anything you haven’t seen before, but it all plays out for great laughs in Paul Slade Smith’s well-constructed 2006 comedy.”
A kilted Scottish hitman (Peter Thompson) is just one of the silly highlights of the comedy Unnecessary Farce.
Plot, as usual for farce, doesn’t matter all that much. Suffice to say it involves bumbling cops Eric (Rob Josephson) and Billie (Emily Mader) in a hotel room, trying to carry out a sting operation to catch an allegedly crooked politician (Christopher Neudorf) as he meets in the adjoining room with his administration’s new accountant, Karen (Chelsey Tam).
The fearsome Scottish mafia gets involved, most notably in the form of the aforementioned kilted hitman.
The world’s most insecure security agent (Brady Alisauskas) and the mayor’s wife (Debbie Morris) get tangled up in the mess before long.
It all amounts to great, silly fun in this well-paced production, officials say.
“The performances from the all-local cast are suitably broad and goofy, the physical comedy well played, and the timing sharp enough to make the most out of some very funny dialogue.
“But it is a lot of fun – the kind of silly, pointless fun that’s entirely necessary sometimes.”
