SMASH HIT “METEOR SHOWER” IN LAST WEEK AT THE RED BARN

Steve Martin’s hilarious “Meteor Shower” has one week left in its smash hit, Sold Out run at the Red Barn, through Saturday, April 20. Tickets for all remaining shows are on sale now, but in short supply, as the show has been wowing audiences since its opening.

Martin’s absurdist, off-the-wall comedy is an exquisite, comedic gem that takes a look at the fragility of marriage through the eyes and behaviors of two California couples.

Starring Dave Bootle, Michael Castellano, Elena Devers, and Susannah Wells, and directed by Joy Hawkins, the play – true to Martin’s oeuvre – is conceptual comedy. The funny action and dialogue are attached more to the theme he’s exploring than the characters he uses to explore it. And as the New York Times said, “Mr. Martin is peerless at crafting tiny wit bombs,” which he uses perfectly and liberally throughout the play.

The story revolves around Norm and Corky, and Gerald and Laura. The first two have been married for 19 years, and most of that time has been spent working on their relationship with the help of magazines, books, and a lot of psychobabble .

Repressed though they may be, Norm and Corky invite Gerald and Laura over for drinks and to watch the coming Perseid Meteor Shower about to light up the sky over the boutique town of Ojai, California. But unbeknownst to them, the latter couple have a nefarious agenda – they have come to conquer and destroy: ”Let’s go for total collapse” Gerald tells his wife as they make their plans to crack open the perfect balance Norm and Corky have seemingly achieved in their relationship.

While the meteor shower definitely plays an important role in the play (wait ‘til you see how), it is the emotionally alluring moves by the interloping couple that leave Norm and Corky reeling. Like us, they didn’t see it coming.

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