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
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.
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