LEXINGTON, Va, July 14, 2023—The VMI Community Theatre will present George Feydeau’s French farce, “A Fitting Confusion” on Wednesday, July 19 - Saturday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m. each evening, and Sunday, July 23 at 2:00 p.m. in Gillis Theater.

Written in 1886 and later translated by Norman R. Shapiro, “A Fitting Confusion” was intended for popular audiences and is enormously ingenious and complex. Somehow, Feydeau’s characters manage to disturb each other’s comfortable lives in a pattern of crazy crossings and coincidences. It seems that everybody knows, or was once the lover of, or was married to everybody else, and all are destined to meet in the same place at the same inconvenient time, with unusual and often unfortunate results.

Heading the cast is Tom Oxendine as Balthasar Moulineaux, a fashionable society doctor; Victoria “Tori” Wright ’24, who plays Yvonne, Moulineaux’s naïve young wife; and Sue Ann Huger who plays Suzanne, Moulineaux’s mistress.

The cast is rounded out by Laura Holt, Jack Page, Tim Price, Andrew Hartless, Linda Gorman, Maria Quillin, and Paula Oxendine.

The play is directed by long-time VMI Theatre director, Joellen Bland, assisted by Linda Gorman, with support from Command Sgt. Maj. Suzanne Rubenstein, and Steven Utt provides lighting and sound. 

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens ages 65 and over, payable by cash or check at the door. Cadets and children ages six and under are free. Reservations are not required. Gillis Theater is located in Marshall Hall on VMI post.

“A Fitting Confusion” is produced in cooperation with Samuel French, Inc. 

For additional information, contact Joellen Bland at 540-464-7389 or blandjk@vmi.edu.

Marianne Hause
Communications & Marketing
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE