“The Underpants”

By Carl Sternheim 
Adapted by Steve Martin, Directed by Edward Hightower
Playing: January 16 — February 7, 2009

Polite society’s standards of decency may have mellowed, and our tolerance of exposed skin has unquestionably increased.  Still, it’s just bad taste to let one’s knickers fall down in public! This is the scandal that lies at the heart of Steve Martin’s delightful adaptation of Sternheim’s 1910 comedy.

In a German apartment, a young housewife has been innocently waving to the king during a parade when she becomes the victim of a wayward undergarment… her husband predicts that the mishap will ruin him, jeopardizing his job as a respectable government clerk… and certainly affecting his ability to rent out the couple’s spare room!   Join us for an evening of thought-provoking hilarity. 

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