Performances
May 5, 2025 | 7:30 PM
May 6, 2025 | 7:30 PM
May 7, 2025 | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Theater East, Logan Center
Written by Abe Burrows (based on a play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy)
Directed by Joseph DePaula
Synopsis
Dr. Julian Winston, a dentist keeps his girlfriend, Toni, on a string by claiming he has a wife and two children. Toni is fed-up with being the “other woman,” so Winston, to avoid losing her, promises to divorce his wife to marry her. Only he has has no wife, nor any kids. This might not seem a problem, but Toni, with her own style of virtue, and not wanting to be a wicked "home-breaker," insists on meeting the wife to make sure the wife’s as eager for a divorce as Winston says. He asks his spinsterish assistant, Stephanie, to play the part of his wife, which leads to complications when Toni can tell Stephanie is actually in love with him---a fact he is oblivious to---and requires further and further convincing that she really wants a divorce.