Beau Jest closed their fifteenth anniversary season with the premiere of a new original production, The Last Resort, at the Beau Jest / Piano Factory Theater, 791 Tremont Street, Boston.
The Last Resort explores the interesting lives of a group of people visiting the Rondelet Resort, a fictional Adirondack Lodge that has seen better days. The lodge is being audited, the owners' having an affair, the smoked salmon has run out, and Mrs. Smiley is flashing her breasts on the closed-circuit TV again. It's Fawlty Towers meets the Cherry Orchard, as Beau Jest presents this introspective look at troubled people in a pastoral setting. Extreem circumstamces - the loss of a loved one, the family business going under, and frustrated love lives - converge in this sometimes funny, sometimes unsettling look at how people face the future when they don't know where to turn.
Since 1984, the actors, directors, and designers of Beau Jest have been creating unique, original productions collaboratively. The Last Resort grew out of several months of improvisation on the themes of sex, death, and taxes.