Bigfork Community Players ‘Odd Couple’ in final weekend
Members of the Poker Gang (John Goroski, David Vale, Mike Robertson, and Daron Fisler) worry that Felix may do something crazy.
The Bigfork Community Players' production of “The Odd Couple” by Neil Simon continues this weekend in Bigfork at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available at the Pocketstone Cafe, Bigfork Drug, at the door, and online at bigforkcommunityplayers.com.
The hit Broadway comedy explores the complexities of the couple relationship from a unique, call it odd, perspective.
Oscar Madison is a happy man, comfortable in his squalor, accepting of his divorce, and optimistic about the twin divorcees he recently met in the elevator. Felix Unger is less positive — about life, love, and the future in general. His wife has just kicked him out for, among other things, his obsessive nature and his compulsive neatness. He needs a place to stay. Playwright Neil Simon’s concept in the odd couple is to compound the pain of two ordinary failed relationships with the exquisite pain of one guaranteed to fail. And somehow he knew it would make us laugh.
Michele Shapero directs “The Odd Couple.”
“The first play I ever directed was ‘The Odd Couple,’ Shapero said. “but it was Neil Simon’s adaptation of the play to women. That was fun, but this is the original. And it’s even more fun.”