Presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company
Show Dates
Tuesday, Dec 4, 7:30pm
Wednesday, Dec 5, 7:30pm
Thursday, Nov Dec 6, 7:30pm
Friday, Dec 7, 8pm
Saturday, Dec 8, 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, Dec 9, 7pm
Wednesday, Dec 12, 7:30pm
Thursday, Nov Dec 13, 7:30pm
Friday, Dec 14, 8pm
Saturday, Dec 15, 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, Dec 16, 2pm and 7pm
Tuesday, Dec 18, 7:30pm
Wednesday, Dec 19, 7:30pm
Thursday, Nov Dec 20, 7:30pm
Friday, Dec 21, 8pm
Saturday, Dec 22, 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, Dec 23, 7pm
Wednesday, Dec 26, 7:30pm
Thursday, Nov Dec 27, 2pm and 7:30pm
Friday, Dec 28, 8pm
Saturday, Dec 29, 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, Dec 31, 7pm
Tuesday, Jan 1, 7:30pm
Wednesday, Jan 2, noon
Thursday, Jan 3, 7:30pm
Friday, Jan 4, 8pm
Saturday, Jan 5, 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, Jan 6, 2pm and 7pm
Leaping from Boston in 1950 to Wall Street in 1986 to lavish Malibu today, David Ives (The Liar, The Metromaniacs) gives his “tranlaptation” treatment to Carl Sternheim’s epic trilogy, Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Classes – an evening filled with panties falling, lovers juggling, dueling pistols shooting and other signs of near-apocalypse.
David Ives has said publicly that “German comedy” is largely an oxymoron – except for Sternheim (1878-1942). Returning for one final collaboration with Artistic Director Michael Kahn (The School for Lies), Ives sharpens his celebrated wit to razor-like social commentary – at once ludicrous, larger-than-life and close to the bone, making us wonder along the way, as all social satirists do, just where all this madness is going both onstage and off.
The Panties, The Partner and The Profit
by David Ives