Breath Of Spring

Breath Of Spring

Theatre 40 at The Reuben Cordova Theatre
241 Moreno Drive Beverly Hills

Breath of Spring is a mid-20th Century British comedy, and no company in town does them better than Theatre 40. Dame Beatrice and her friends and lodgers are a tight-knit bunch who concoct an operation to return a stolen fur before its owner discovers that it's missing. They have such fun doing it that they plan future schemes not to return furs, but to steal them. They do this not for personal gain, but to give the proceeds of their felonious fur thefts to the deserving needy. You could say that they are modern day Robin Hoods. They would say so. Nonetheless, they're amateurs at crime, however well-intentioned. When Scotland Yard comes calling at their door, they plead with Lily, an ex-convict who is Dame Beatrice's maid, to come up with a way to keep them all out of prison. Is jail in their futures, or will they get away with their thievery? It is to laugh.

Thru - Aug 21, 2016