A Marriage Minuet
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 3, 2006
Closed Aug 20, 2006
Opened Aug 3, 2006
Closed Aug 20, 2006
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David Wiltse's new comedy A Marriage Minuet begins with two couples. Marriage. A single girl. Flirtation. Temptation. Opportunity. Infidelity. The dialogue reads, "Let us share a moment of cheap and meaningless mutual titillation before going on about our business." Consummation. Satiation. The script continues, "Instant overwhelming free-flowing guilt." Regret. Retreat. Repeat. This brash, sophisticated comedy of human misunderstandings and general misbehaving all around is destined to become a contemporary comic classic.
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In Julius Monk's 1950s revue Take Five, a satirical song called "Westport' included this lyric: "He caught her in the kitchen playing Westport/A game indigenous to suburban life/Where you take a wife of whom you're not the husband/While someone else's husband takes your wife." It's tempting to think of David Wiltse's A Marriage Minuet, now at the Westport Country Playhouse, as a two-act elaboration of the impertinent ditty -- especially when the opening of acts one and two include choreographer Peter Pucci's version of a minuet and a gavotte, just as they might have been staged in a bygone Monk opus.
However, while the Monk version sticks to the nitty gritty --"'Til he caught her in the k[...]