Prospect Theater Project

Dinner is a very witty, very black comedy about the Dinner Party from Hell.  The characters are edgy, mostly London upper crust types. The bitchy society lady Paige throwing the party is celebrating her husband Lars’s latest self-centered self-help “philosophy” book. She’s invited a woman artist Wynne who put a portrait of her husband’s genitals on display at her last exhibition—he really didn’t like that and now he’s left her; scientist Hal, who does something secret with germs, and his sexy trophy wife Sian, who’s a “newsbabe” (“I decorate the rolling news”). Then there’s Mike. He shows up at the door by accident and may or may not be a cat burglar, there to case the house. And there’s a waiter, whom Paige recruited via the Internet.

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