Monroe Actors Stage Company

At the historic Capitol Theatre
202 S. Main Street * P.O. Box 89 * Waterloo, IL  62298
(618) 939-SHOW (7469)

Don’t Drink the Water

By Woody Allen
Performance: June 13-15 and 20-22, 2008
Auditions: April 13, 14 and 15
Director: Kelly Shaw

A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain.  An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking.  It's not much of a refuge for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa.  Nevertheless, they carefully and frantically plot their escape, and the ambassador's son and the caterer's daughter even have time to fall in love.