Perfect Arrangement (from 2017)
Here's another one I never posted on here. It's from April 2017 about a show called Perfect Arrangement, produced by ReAct Theatre. I did a little light editing. My review of Perfect Arrangement “It’s complicated.” So says Julia Beers in one of the funnier and more knowing lines she delivers as Millie Martindale in ReAct Theatre’s Perfect Arrangement, playing now at 12th Avenue Arts. And complicated it is. The show is part farce, part melodrama and part spy thriller, appropriate for a show set in 1950. Millie and her husband Bob (Jedidiah Mathre) live in a Georgetown, Washington, DC, apartment next door to another couple, Norma and Jim Baxter (Zandi Carlson and Parker Kennedy.) And they share more than a common wall. They share secrets. The straight marriages are a cover for the real relationships. Millie loves Norma and Jim loves Bob. But it’s 1950 and they can’t be who they are. Further complicating things, as the show begins, Bob, who works in personnel for the State Depar