BrightSide Theatre to Present NOT NOW, DARLING

BrightSide Theatre, Naperville's only professional theatre performing in the historic downtown district, continues its celebration of our fifth anniversary with a season of farce. The laughs continue when we return to the playwright who authored BrightSide Theatre's inaugural show "Run For Your Wife" with this hilarious farce - Not, Now Darling, will perform at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth Street in Naperville February 19-March 6, 2016. Tickets are on sale now at www.brightsidetheatre.com, or by phone at 630-447-TIXS (8497). The press performance is Friday, February 19 at 8pm.

Not Now, Darling features Yvonne Ambrose (Frankfort), Kayla Boye (Lisle), Jack Calvert(Western Springs), Paul Chakrin (Chicago), Rob Cramer (LaGrange Park), Matt Gibson(Lombard), Hillary Gokenbach (Chicago), Sally Olson (Chicago), Gina Phillips (Schaumburg),Timothy Sullivan (Oak Park), and Genna Walden (Naperville).

Not Now, Darling is a madcap British farce about mistresses and minks set in the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch that makes enormous good fun at what happens when the owner, Gilbert Bodley tries to secure the affections of his would-be mistress by "selling" her husband an expensive fur coat for a fraction of its cost. His plan blows up when the husband wants to purchase the coat for his mistress, and the fur really flies! Soon you have husbands, lovers, suspicious wives and gorgeous girls wearing nothing but their underwear entangled in this plot filled with mistaken identities, scantily-clad ladies hiding in closets, mobsters and misguided shoppers. Filled with fun and frolic, everyone gets their just desserts just as you would expect from these two master writers of farce, Ray Cooney and John Chapman.

"Many have called playwright Ray Cooney the English Feydeau who was a master of the art of French farce. Ray Cooney's like Feydeau's rises above his contemporaries." Director Christopher Kidder-Mostrom

"It only felt fitting to return to the playwright that penned our first production five years ago and we couldn't be more excited!" Artistic Director Jeffery Cass