Mee borrows extra plot elements from Moliere’s Tartuffe, additionally the character of Jack Horner is brought in from Wycherleyis the Country Wife

Prompted by Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid (which Resonance Ensemble is presenting in rotating repertory using this globe premiere), The Mail Order Bride is placed in modern-day Brooklyn and tells the storyline of Argan (John Henry Cox), an older guy convinced they can buy youth through workout, diet, and wedding to a much more youthful girl. The intended bride is June (Sue Jean Kim), whoever Asian ancestry is amongst the characteristics Argan believes can certainly make her an ideal, obedient, and innocent wife. Nevertheless, on the plane trip to ny, June suits and falls deeply in love with the Jack that is handsome HornerPeter McCain). Many other intimate entanglements — such as the rivalry between Argan’s daughters Susana (Melissa Miller) and Julie (Susan Louise O’Connor) over nebbish caterer Cleante (Booth Daniels) — augment the plot, with different figures breaking away into long, poetic digressions regarding the nature of love.

The playwright also makes use of some text from a 1950s primer on “How to be always a Good Wife” that’s been making the rounds on the net (though some claim the document is a fake). Mee’s collage-like form of producing theater serves him well right right here, with the disparate elements combining to produce a script that is delightfully non-traditional makes both satiric and genuine findings about wedding, race, love, self-determination, and aging.

The production throws in a few songs that are original good measure.

The somewhat generic, pre-recorded music is through noise designer Nick Moore, as the funny words are by Travis Kramer. The routines are campily choreographed by Matthew Henley. Perhaps maybe maybe Not every track works, but McCain has a hilarious solamente called “However, if we Did” that is a show-stopper that is real.

Their energetic and performance that is playful one of the stand-outs.