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Robin Hawdon’s “Perfect Wedding” is a newer entry in the venerable tradition of ribald British farce.
Hawdon is a well-known television actor and playwright in England who has written several comedies similar to “Wedding,” said director Glen Gomez.
“It’s got doors slamming, mistaken identities,” Gomez said. “It’s quite a funny play.”
LePetit Theatre de Terrebonne (7829 Main St., downtown Houma) is presenting the comedy from Thursday, April 17, to Sunday, April 27. All performances are at 7:30 p.m. except for the Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. No show is scheduled on Monday, April 21.
“Wedding” contains enough innuendo to justify a PG-13 rating if it were a movie,” Gomez said, though nothing is overt.
“For three to five seconds, you see someone wrapped in a sheet in bed,” he said. “That’s as racy as it gets.”
“Wedding” wastes no time getting things going. After imbibing to excess at his bachelor party the previous night, bridegroom Bill (Dwayne Adams) finds himself in the bed of his honeymoon suite with the girlfriend (Ani Ashley) of his best man, Tom (Joel Waldron). Bill understandably does not tell his best man who the woman was.
Not remembering much from the previous night, the two begin scheming to hide the fact that someone other than his fiancée (Angie Peltier) had kept the groom’s bed warm.
The situation becomes hairier when the bride’s mother (Patti Loupe) arrives to help dress her for the wedding.
“She’s scatterheaded,” Gomez said.
Bill and Tom then manage to wheedle the hotel’s maid (Michelle Becnel) into saying she had been Bill’s bedmate. The lies start snowballing.
The cast is a mix of veterans and new faces. Adams appeared in LePetit’s “Home Free” last year. Waldron and Loupe were last seen in the theater’s production of “The Curious Savage” in September.
Ashley is new to LePetit but has worked in theater in the Northeast. “She’s a good find for the theater,” Gomez said.
Becnel, from Lockport, is a newcomer to the stage.
Gomez said the setting of “Wedding” will be moved from England to “somewhere in south Louisiana.”
He added that, though the LePetit audience enjoys comedies, the theater is in the talking stages of producing for next year John Shanley’s “Doubt,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2005.
To reserve tickets for “Perfect Wedding,” call the LePetit box office at (985) 876-4278.
LePetit’s “Perfect Wedding” cast Joel Waldron, Dwayne Adams (middle), and Michelle Becnet rehearse a scene.
