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A Special Relationship

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Produced by:
Twilight Theatre Co. in association with Take Note Theatre
Dates:
May 29 - June 29, 2025
Run Time:
1 Hour, 0 Minute
Intermission:
No
Theater:
Showing in Theater
Tickets:
$38 (incl. a $3 fee) | 59E59 Members: $30
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By Tim Marriott and Jeff Stolzer
Directed by Margarett Perry

With Brian Dykstra and Tim Marriott

Two nations divided by a single language, brought together by holy matrimony. 

From the team that brought you last year's hit shows Watson and Appraisal comes a new transatlantic comedy. It is the morning of their children’s wedding and British dad Monty is hosting American dad Pete and his family. Everyone else has gone to the church for the rehearsal but they’ve been left behind to put up a gazebo in the garden. Communication proves challenging and not just because the instructions are in Chinese.

Can these headstrong men from opposite sides of the pond forge an alliance long enough to set up for the wedding or will the thin veneer of international détente collapse with the first gust of wind?

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Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo Caption: Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo: Matt Hunter
Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
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Photo: Matt Hunter
Tim Marriott in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
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Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo Caption: Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo: Matt Hunter
Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo Caption: Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo: Matt Hunter
Brian Dykstra and Tim Marriott in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo Caption: Brian Dykstra and Tim Marriott in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo: Matt Hunter
Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo Caption: Tim Marriott and Brian Dykstra in A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Photo: Matt Hunter

Producing Company

Twilight Theatre Company

Twilight Theatre Company's mission is to develop, workshop, and produce new work and to tell stories that deepen our awareness, encourage compassion and ignite conversation. Founded by Sturgis Warner in 1998 and now under the artistic leadership of Margarett Perry, Twilight continues its mission to support new work through readings, workshops, and productions. Last season Twilight produced Appraisal and Watson: The Final Problem for Brits Off Broadway as well as the sold out, extended run of The Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project (59E59). Twilight also produced two world premieres at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival — Polishing Shakespeare by Brian Dykstra and Plotters by Brian Parks. Both productions received sold out, critically acclaimed runs. This season, Twilight is continuing its work to bring international artists to the United States as well as bringing the work of US artists to the UK and beyond.

Read more at: www.twilighttheatrecompany.org

Take Note Theatre

Take Note Theatre was founded by Simon and Sarah Reilly, and brings together established and emerging theatre talent to bring new and classic stories to the stage. In addition to their producing and touring work, they also operate the Tabard Theatre in London.

Read more at: www.tabard.org.uk

Reviews

★★★★ "Delightful! Humorous but also moving. It is well worth seeing!" – North West End UK

"A quietly moving piece about two men getting to know each other"
"Well structured, has two fine performances and you will learn how to construct a (wonky) gazebo by the end of it." – The Chiswick Calendar

"A simple story...It is funny, but ultimately as we find out more about the two men, their lifestyles and secrets, it becomes very much a buddy story…genuinely very moving." – Chiswick W4

"A welcome romp from reality!" – Green Room Reviews

"A comedy of manners...likeable, amiable cross-cultural, cross-class comedy...thoroughly enjoyable misunderstandings of language, physicality and cultural norms"
"There’s a warmth between the two actors that makes this work, Marriott’s initial stiffness softening as he realises that there’s more to this change to his traditional ways than he’d thought, Dykstra’s kindness and amusement at the ramrod-backed Englishman moving into genuine concern for the Colonel’s worries about his daughter, paying from his straitened resources for the wedding (as a ‘traditional’ father of the bride must) and his health." – London Pub Theatres Magazine 

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