Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Sock & Buskin present A Perfect Wedding, written by Charles L. Mee and directed by professor emeritus John Emigh.
A Perfect Wedding is a comedy about love, romance, marriage, and death. Fleeing to the forest to escape his impending wedding, the groom finds himself, and everyone else, lost in a thicket of shifting and unpredictable desires. Everything falls apart, only to come back together in unexpected ways after two gay wedding planners save the day. Throughout the play the diverse and eccentric cast of characters couple and decouple, confront the specter of death, fall in and out of love, and in the process challenge the conventions both of theater and of marriage.
This spirited and irreverent comedy is replete with familiar literary references, scenes lifted directly from a soap opera, a mud fight, and music and dance from many periods and cultures, including an exuberant Bollywood dance number.
$17 adults/$12 seniors/$7 students, April 12 through April 22, Leeds Theatre, 77 Waterman Street, (tickets)