New Jersey Stage Issue 46 | Page 83

On Stage: Theatre The Underpants HPAC, 102 State Street, Hackensack Theobald Maske has an unusual problem: his wife’s underpants won’t stay on. One Sunday morn- ing they fall to her ankles right in the middle of town--a public scandal! Mortified, Theo swears to keep her at home until she can find some less unruly undies. Amid this chaos he’s trying to NJ STAGE - ISSUE 46 rent a room in their flat. The pro- spective lodgers have some un- derlying surprises of their own. In The Underpants, Steve Martin brings his comic genius and so- phisticated literary style to Carl Sternheim’s classic 1910 farce. The Company Theatre Group presents this through May 6. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 83