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Dinah Pehrson-Day, director of the upcoming comedy “Bedroom Farce, says that she has found her first venture into community theater a rewarding experience. “The community respohse has been overwhelming,” she said. “I was especially excited about the casting which turned out very well. This is a tremendously talented cast.”
Dinah, the daughter of two actors, is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She remained with the Academy as part of its repertory company and appeared off-Broadway before coming to Rappahannock County a few years ago.
During her years in New York, Dinah became a fan of Alan Ayckbourn, the author of “Bedroom Farce.” “He’s tremendously prolific, a well-known contemporary writer in London,” she explained.
Despite the name, Dinah said that this Ayckbourn comedy is neither explicitly sexual, a drawing room comedy, or slapstick. “Ayckbourn is fascinated with the themes of marriage and friendship and the relation between the two,” she said. “He uses the British sense of reserve and the small secrets and idiosyncracies of everyday life as his subjects.”
Using middle-class characters, the author of “Bedroom Farce” paints a very familiar picture of the reaction of friends and family to a couple struggling with the pain of a floundering marriage. “The other three couples are happily married, or at least comfortably married,” Dinah said. “Their lives are turned upside down one night by the self-absorption of the unhappy couple, too preoccupied with their owm troubles to see the inconvenience they are causing.”
Dinah said she’s also very pleased with the capable supj>ort she’s found
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