Neil Simon's farce gathers a group of wealthy friends arriving for a couple's tenth wedding anniversary dinner party, only to discover the host has shot himself, non-fatally, and his wife is nowhere to be found. Desperate to avoid a scandal before the other guests, including a pompous state senator, arrive, the friends who found the scene begin frantically improvising cover stories, and each new arrival's attempt to help only tangles the lies further. As misunderstandings compound with farcical precision, deafness, mistaken accusations, and a police investigation threaten to expose every fabrication at once. It's a classic example of Simon's gift for escalating, door-slamming farce built on a foundation of increasingly desperate lies.

Guerrieri Hall