Barefoot in the Park - A Comedy by Neil Simon

Altarena Playhouse presents Barefoot in the Park, a comedy by Neil Simon.

WHEN: January 16 – February 15; Fridays & Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 2pm

No performances on Sundays Jan 18 and Feb 1

Special Thursday performance Feb 12, 8pm

WHERE: Altarena Playhouse, 1409 High St., Alameda, convenient to public transit

TICKET PRICES: $26. Tickets available at www.altarena.org, (510) 523-1553

LOVE. It’s never easy, even when it’s new. They say opposites attract, but will newlyweds Paul and Corie make it? He’s buttoned up and ambitious. She’s a free spirit. They’ve just moved into a high-maintenance high-rise in New York City, and things are not going well. Join them in this heartwarming, bubbly comedy as they find a way to live, laugh and love – at the top of the world.

Barefoot in the Park is directed by Sue Trigg, an Altarena Playhouse veteran. Trigg stays keenly aware of the shows original context: “Set in 1963,” she says. “Simon’s play manages to capture the uncertainty of changing times and the changing role of women and ‘traditional’ marriage. ‘Barefoot’ is a fabulous well-paced romp, one where we watch two people, very much in love, navigate the tempest of post honeymoon bliss with very different views on life and passion.”

Becky Doyle plays the effervescent Corie and Matt Davis, who was last seen as lead lothario Bernard in Boeing Boeing, plays her straight-laced husband Paul. Completing this comedic cast are Bonnie DeChant as Corie’s loopy mother and Randy Anger as the couple’s eccentric next-door neighbor Victor Velasco.