Production information
The Underpants by Steve Martin from the original play by Carl Sternheim

Polk Theater

Directed by Lane Davies

Featuring Marin Miller

6:30 PM, Thursdays, May 1, 8 and 15
7:30 PM, Fridays and Saturdays, May 2, 9, 10, 16 and 17
2:30 PM, Saturday, May 17

What does this season need after The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? and Doubt? A rollicking farce told with the wacky sensibility of the extremely funny Steve Martin! Yes, THE Steve Martin. Critics love this show: "An ambitious amalgam of comic book and social commentary, made out of sex jokes, slamming doors, and sophisticated repartee." The New York Times "A brilliant, hilarious, mad adaptation...." New York Post "Martin sprinkles the dialogue with endearing throwaways and demented turns of mind that could only have come from his singular playwrighting self." Newsday "A careening combination sex farce, comedy, and social commentary -- light on its feet, irreverent, and quite engaging." The Record What is The Big Laugh of 2008 about? On the surface, The Underpants tells what happens when a pretty young woman married to a stuffy bureaucrat accidentally looses her intimate apparel while watching the king's parade. But underneath (no pun intended), The Underpants comments perceptively on our Celebrity-Mad Culture and the 15-minutes-make-that-seconds of fame syndrome. Who is that person on the cover of People I've never heard of? And what talent does he/she possess to justify this attention?

Appropriate Audience: High school and above.

 
Tickets: $10-$40 (some restrictions apply). TPAC Box Offices: 505 Deaderick St., Downtown Nashville; Davis-Kidd Booksellers in The Mall at Green Hills; 615 255-ARTS; www.tennesseerep.org