When you cross scorned lovers, ridiculous schemes, a heist, and a surgically inclined mother, you are sure to get some good laughs.
Such is the setup for the latest offering from Bashaw's Majestic Theatre Players, Appetizers at Seven, Appendicitis at Eight, written by H. E. Huber.
The production ran as a dinner theatre from Oct. 11-13 with a catered meal.
Performing the production were Felicity Weymer, Maggie Young, Damian Bond, Wanda Ryan, Ron Smithman, Randy Thomas, Hayden Breitmeier and Mary Kinsella under the direction of Amanda Besuijen.
The play opens during the early 1900s in Philadelphia as two bachelors, Clark Caraway. (Bond) and Arthur Pikney (Thomas) are lamenting singlehood, as Pikney had just lost his fiancee due to a rather unfortunate incident with a horse.
Edwin Burgess (Smithman), also newly single, enters and Caraway begins formulating a plan: They would invite the women for a dinner party, Pikney would fake appendicitis, earning sympathy, and Burgess would save him, earning esteem.
According to Caraway, the plan would be sure to woo the women back.
However, the women, Gwen Burgess (played by Ryan) and Agnes Dalliard (Weymer), both feeling scorned by their two former lovers are making plots of their own directly at odds with the men's plans.
Then, when Pikney fakes appendicitis after the arrival of Margery Caraway, Clark's mother, who insists that he needs immediate surgery and they can't wait for a doctor, hilarity ensues as Pikney attempts to avoid both the plans of the women or the self-proclaimed surgical prowess of the senior Caraway.
The show had the audience roaring with laughter was a sellout for all three performances.
Appetizers at Seven, Appendicitis at Eight was performed with permission from Scripts for Stage.
