The Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society opens its production of Boeing Boeing at Daylesford Theatre on April 23, running through May 2
The Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society (BMDS) is staging Boeing Boeing, a seven-door farce set in 1960s Paris, from April 23 to May 2 at Daylesford Theatre.
The play centres on bachelor Bernard, played by Geoffrey Faiella, who is juggling relationships with three stewardesses — each of whom believes she is engaged to him. The three fiancées are portrayed by Lucy Russell, Kate Farmer and Allie Zuckerman.
The plot reaches a crisis point when all three arrive at Bernard’s flat on the same day, leaving him, his housekeeper Berthe (Donna Nicholson) and his school friend Robert (Gregg Smith) to keep them apart.
Director Robbie Godfrey said the play’s origins lie in the rapid expansion of commercial air travel in the early jet age.
“Marc Camoletti, the playwright, was spitballing about what would happen, now that people were travelling so much quicker to somebody who was a player like this guy,” Mr Godfrey said.
He said the technical demands of staging a farce were part of its appeal.
“It will be non-stop laughter. It’s going to be an absolute hoot. If the actors have not left the stage absolutely exhausted, I have told them they have not done their job,” he said. “It’s an incredible situational comedy with high stakes. At every point, just when you think it can’t get worse, it gets worse.”
Mr Godfrey said rehearsals had been progressing well, and that the production had attracted significant interest — with the society having to turn away some would-be participants.
“We have been absolutely thrilled by the amount of interest that a play like this has pulled in even though it is relatively unknown in the farce genre to most people,” he said.
Tickets are on sale now at Ptix.bm/Boeing.
Media release and images supplied by the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society.
