“CLEVER LITTLE LIES” BEING SPUN AT CT CABARET

CAST OF "CLEVER LITTLE LIES," COURTESY OF CT CABARET

If your mother thinks she’s a detective, a cross between

Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, it

is advised not to tell your father any secrets. He is

doomed to blather them all, with only a small amount of 

persuasion. He does not even need to be tortured along

the way.

The case in point is Alice, a happily married Karen

Gagliardi, who runs a book shop and lives vicariously

through the heroines in the novels she sells. She is

disillusioned that current readers have deserted

Austen and Dickens and prefer the salacious tales like

“50 or 60 shades of Grey.” When her hubby Bill, a

devoted Michael Gilbride, comes home from a tennis

match with their son Billy and boasts about winning,

Alice’s antenna immediately suspects there is a story

he is concealing.

Come put your ear to the bedroom door of Joe DiPietro’s

comedy “Clever Little Lies” being entertained at the

Connecticut Cabaret Theatre weekends until Saturday,

December 15.

Alice couldn’t be more right and before you can say

“who wants a piece of cheesecake?” three times, she

has invited son Billy, a new dad and an even newer

adulterer Chris Pearson, and wife Jane, an excited

and exhausted Tracey Brown, over to fix the problem.

Confessions are soon spilling from the most unlikely

places, as baby Emily cries, and the four try to diagnose

how to save not one marriage but two. The conversation

is frankly sexual as each unburdens and confesses and

tries to find the shiny happy side of life. Billy’s young

fantasy woman, his personal, very personal, trainer at

the gym figures significantly in the lust/love equation.

Kris McMurray directs this comic homage into what can

happen to even the most stable of marriages when

eyes stray.

For tickets ($34), call CT Cabaret Theatre, 31-33

Webster Square Road, Berlin at 860-829-1248 or

online atwww.ctcabaret.com. Performances are

Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with doors opening

at 7:15 p.m. Remember to bring goodies to share

at your table or plan to buy dessert and drink on site.

Marital challenges and the very real question of trust

loom large as both couples chase happiness and try

to make it their own.