A COMEDY BY JAMES SHERMAN

10 November 2022 – 7 January 2023

Is navigating the path of love ever easy? It definitely isn’t for the two middle-aged loners in this charming American play. Billed as a “reluctant romantic comedy;” the play focuses on musicologist Charles and the poetess Isabel who moves into the apartment next to him. He has stubbornly avoided all romantic entanglements, occupying himself with work, his books, and the frequent food visits from his mother, who calls herself “the soup fairy”: Isabel, newly divorced and toying with suicide, has only her visiting father for company. Charles and Isabel gradually develop a somewhat tenuous friendship while resisting the hints and suggestions of their single, meddling parents who try to push them closer together. Can love possibly blossom under these unlikely circumstances? And meanwhile, are the parents themselves, unbeknownst to their kids, starting a romance of their own?

 

CAST

ISABEL FOX | Helena Ashwell

CHARLES NORTON | Brian Tynan

GEORGE FOX | Jonny Magnanti

HELEN NORTON | Joanne Hildon

PRODUCTION

Direction: Clifford Dean

Set Design: Mathias Wardeck

Costume Design: Patricia Royo

Music Supervision and Choreography: Paul Glaser

Lighting & Sound: Heiko Böttner

Stage Management and Props: Rebecca Delmas

Set Design Assistance: René Ahnert

Hairstyling: Birgit Wolf

REVIEWS

HAMBURGER MORGENPOST “Der Regisseur zeigt eine zwischen lockerem Humor und berührender Tragik fein ausbalancierte Aufführung mit vier glänzend aufgelegten Charakterdarstellern, denen man beim Schmieden ihres Liebesglücks gern zusieht.”

HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT “Meisterhafte Komik“

DIE AUSWÄRTIGE PRESSE E. V.  “One of the most touching plays ever” … “warm your heart on a number of cold, foggy, and rainy winter days before and after Christmas.”