Brooke Hills Playhouse, along with season sponsors, Municipal Mutual Insurance Company and Reasner Funeral Home, announces the fourth show of its 52nd season, “Run for Your Wife,” which will run July 28-30 and August 4-6.
This British comedy, written by Ray Cooney in 1982, centers on John Smith, an ordinary London taxi driver who secretly has two wives in two different towns. When John inadvertently blows his cover, the comic complications multiply.
The plot is comical, and the characters are vivid. Cooney’s dialogue structure is very funny led by ingenious set ups and conflicts between his characters, specifically the use of the double/simultaneous set of two flats and the inspired use of the play’s many phone conversations.
Director Rob DeSantis of Follansbee is pleased to be working with a wonderful cast of eight actors, which includes Cliff Welch of Weirton as the taxi driver, John Smith; Keri Everhart of Weirton as Mary Smith; Makayla Carney of Wheeling as Barbara Smith; Jamie Hamilton of Wheeling as Stanley Gardner; Brandon Yost of Wellsburg as Det. Sgt. Troughton; Twist Oliver of Weirton as Det. Sgt. Porterhouse; Dan Harry of Bethany as Bobby Franklyn; and Brendan Sheehan of Wheeling as a reporter.
Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Ticket prices are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, and $10 for children. The box office opens one hour prior to performances.
Donations are still being sought to match a state grant to improve all electricity in the pre-Civil War apple barn known as the Playhouse. Brooke County Arts Council president Julia Barnhart remarked, “We are so very thankful for all of the funds collected so far, but we are still in dire need of $20,000. If you are able, please consider making a donation of any kind. A set monthly donation would help the Playhouse enormously.”
For more information about “Run for Your Wife” or making donations, call or text 304.737.3344.
