The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend February 24, 2011

February 24 to March 5
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM

Theater for the New City has extended its production of "The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend," remounting the comedy February 24 to March 5, 2011. The production is the newest comedy by Matt Morillo ("Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues") and is directed by the author. It attracted capacity crowds in its original run January 6 to 29 (throughout some of the winter's most miserable weather) and TNC is continuing it, using its earliest schedule availability, so it can reach an even wider audience this season. In this funny, sexy new comedy, five people are barricaded in one apartment building, with a fierce snowstorm outside, looking for love in all the wrong places.

The play skillfully entwines two comic scenarios. In a downstairs apartment, Julia, a call girl, arrives for an appointment with Jeffrey, a nerdy young man who has gotten rich by inventing best-selling sexual devices. Both are in the sex business, but being young, lonely, open-hearted and without guile, naturally they fall in love. What starts as a routine "trick" with trimmings (fake palm trees, suntan lotion and lots of margaritas) ends up with Jeffrey and Julia helping each other uncover the wounds that led them to who they are, getting considerably more than they bargained for on this "first date."

They are juxtaposed with the upstairs neighbors, everyday folks John and Karen, an estranged couple, settling in for a sweet reconciliation after an agreed-upon break. John's a flagrant philanderer Karen's a secret one; she had allowed him an outside affair, knowing his nature. Their plans go awry when Molly, a nubile young modern dancer whom John had dallied with, arrives to take refuge from the blizzard with him. The reconciliation between John and Karen turns into an outrageous evening of drunkenness, accusations and revelations.

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