Marina
Cliff, a Hungarian-Swiss beauty who is recently divorced from her real estate
billionaire husband, decides she wants to write a novel to amuse herself. She
hires Carol Spearman, a smart, reclusive, cynical, witty, failed writer, to
work with her. Marina is still emotionally tied to her ex-husband and
guarantees a loan for him. Carol is in a push-me, pull-me relationship with a
married man for twenty years and allows him to treat her badly. At the
beginning, the two women dislike each other and seem to have nothing in
common. They spar, test, betray and manipulate each other, yet come to an
uneasy truce and agree to continue working together. But by the end of Act
One, Marina loses all her money to her ex, and Carol's boyfriend drops dead.
Now the two women have more in common than they realize. In Act Two, Marina
and Carol, dealing with their losses are drawn together and apart. Carol's
book is a huge success, and at first Marina is furious, but comes around and
tries to help Carol with her grief. Carol, having trouble with intimacy, tries
to push her away, but the two women struggle through and find a budding,
though tenuous, friendship. Realizing they can work together, Carol confronts
Marina's ex-husband to get back the money he's lost. Intertwined in their
relationship and activities is Melody Charm, Marina's ex-husband's current
girlfriend, who seems like a `bimbo , but who is really a smart woman who
knows better than Carol or Marina how to get the man she wants.
Performance times for PUNCH AND JUDY in LAC’s
Lauridsen Performing Arts Theatre August 22-30, 2003 are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00
p.m. and Sunday August 24th at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $12 for all
performance times and seat locations. Dinner Theatre tickets are $20. For
tickets, visit the Lakes Art Center Box Office or call 712.332.7013.
