The Odd Couple (female version)

By Neil Simon

March 15-17, 2007

The student production is again directed by teacher Barbara Elliot and includes a cast of senior students who have been in rehearsals since November.

“Neil Simon is a master of comedy and this play is certainly guaranteed to produce laughter,” says Elliot.

The Odd Couple debuted on Broadway in 1965 and was followed by a successful film and television series. In 1985, Simon revised his script for a predominantly female cast, the version that will be presented at Stanstead College.

The play revolves around the weekly get-together of group of female friends who congregate in the apartment of Olive Madison ( Rebecca Rau, Winnetka, Illinois) for a game of trivial pursuit. Olive is not known for her tidiness and lives in very unkempt surroundings.  Florence Unger (Jessika Mathurin, Bromont, Que.) arrives late and announces she is separating from her husband.  Olive offers to put the fastidious Florence up.  The new mismatched relationship of this pair results in a classic comedy, highlighted by a blind date with the two Spanish brothers, Monolo, (Sergio Lozano, Mexico City) and Jesus (Jeffrey Cowen, Knowlton, Que.) who happen to live upstairs. 

Other cast members are Valerie Bourassa (Mont-St-Grégoire, Que.), Christina Nash ( Newport, Vt.) and Darija Rababzija ( Goeppingen, Germany) . Assistant director is teacher Jean-Jacques Prévost, with technical support from Francis Williams (Stanstead, Que.) and Terry Kim ( Seoul, South Korea), props and costumes by Sarah Elliot (Class of 2002) and sets by Daniel Daoust.