In "Don't Dress for Dinner, " the setting is a country house in France, the people vacationing Brits.
The characters in "Don't Dress for Dinner" do not address the audience.
But this theater season also includes an example of a more traditional farce: Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Marc Camoletti's 1962 "Don't Dress for Dinner, " which opens April 26 at the American Airlines Theatre.
And while the concepts reach back to Shakespeare and Moliere, John Tillinger, the director of "Don't Dress for Dinner, " points out that Aristophanes's "Lysistrata, " in which women withhold sex as a means of bringing an end to war, qualifies, as well.
One caveat: They don't take reservations for dinner, so it's easier to get a table for lunch.
"We don't know who was eating dinner with the kids, what kind of TV was watched, or how well the child slept, " she says.
To make it easier, don't put a television in your child's bedroom, don't watch television while you're eating dinner, and restrict computers and other electronic gadgets to a family area.
"I don't want to eat anywhere else, " Alison said when dinner was over.
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Like, I don't mean happy, as in cosmetically OK, like a polite dinner party answer.
They don't eat until lunchtime, and then they may overeat at that meal or overeat at dinner.
You can translate the prayers and songs into English, but if you don't include Hebrew, as far as I'm concerned it feels more like a dinner party than a religious celebration.
All along they saw the state dinner as something that was rightfully theirs to attend because, let's face it, the Salahis' acts don't suggest any less class or integrity than the sort of antics regularly engaged in by those who actually were on the guest list.
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