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The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple
By Neil Simon
17th to 20th May 2000 at the Sheffield University Drama Studio

Cast......  
Speed Paul Black
Murray Ian Flanagan
Roy Phil George
Vinnie Kevin Daly
Oscar Madison Peter Oxley
Felix Ungar Frank Badger
Gwendolyn Pigeon Maureen Battersby
Cecily Pigeon Val Kelsey
Crew......  
Director Susan Oxley
Stage Manager Jim Sorsby
Assistant Stage Managers Nicola Bachelor
Steven Crowther
Mick Davison
Joan Dunn
Lynne Mallinder
Nigel Timperly
Sound Derek Wofinden
Lighting John Rush
Phil George
Costume & Wardrobe Judy Colby
Front of House Managers Simon Warner
Jill Wright
Ticket Secretary &
Box Office		 Janet Wilson
Photography Peter Colby
Voice Coach Marji Beachill

 

Picture Gallery......

Notes ......

From the publicity flyer (2000):
Divorced Oscar Madison lives in splendid chaos. The highlight of his life is the weekly poker session with his friends Felix, Speed, Murray, Roy and Vinnie. Today's poker session is missing a vital member. Where is Felix? Concern turns to worry as time passes with still no sign of him.

News reaches them that Felix has been thrown out by his wife. Then that he has threatened suicide. His sudden appearance amidst the smoke-laden, sodden chaos of Oscar's apartment throws the poker playing pals into panic.

From the Program (2000):

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marvin Neil Simon (b.July 4 1927 New York City), the second son of Irwin Sirnon, a Jewish travelling salesman and his Mamie; playwright, screenwriter, television writer, and librettist who was one of the most popular playwrights in the history of the American theatre.

Simon was raised in the Bronx and studied at New York University before working as a comedy writer for various television shows in the late 1940s and throughout the '50s. His autobiographical play Come Blow your Horn became a smash success on Broadway end ran for two years after opening in 1961.

The plays that followed proved extremely popular with audiences and usually had very long runs on Broadway. They include Barefoot in the Park (1963; filmed 1967), The odd Couple (1965; filmed 1968), The Star-spangled Girl (1966), Plaza Suite (1968; filmed 1971), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969; filmed 1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971; filmed 1975), The sunshine Boys (1972; filmed 1975), California Suite (1976: filmed 1978), Chapter Two (1977), I ought to Be in Pictures (1980), and a trilogy of autobiographical plays consisting of Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues (19S5), and Broadway Bound (1986).

Simon's plays deal with the everyday lives and domestic problems of ordinary middle-class people. He examines his characters' marital and other dilemmas and, for comic effect, plays up the incongruity of their situations.

Susan Oxley

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