“Courage. That’s what Perfect Arrangement, the latest production by The Bent at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, is all about.
It’s 1950, and two happily married couples are close next-door neighbors in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. However, we soon learn the marriages are a ruse: The two men are actually a couple, and so are the two women. They have connected the houses through a passage that emerges into a closet! The lads can live in one house, and the lasses in another, but to public eyes, they look like two straight, married couples. Brilliant!
The house we see seemingly belongs to Bob Martindale (Eric Seppala), and his blonde wife, Millie (Angela Landis). It is a perfect ’50s setting, with the shag rug, the aqua walls, the piano, the cozy-though-unlit fireplace, and the round red pillows on the sofa. The house next door is occupied by Jim Baxter (Terry Ray) and his brunette wife, Norma (Laura Stearns). In actuality, we are seeing the house where the ladies live; the men live together next door, through the closet…”
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