By Norma Dittman
Fulda Free Press staff writer
With a step back to the 1960’s, Fulda Community Players presented “The Odd Couple” on Friday and Saturday evening as well as Sunday afternoon. The three performances were held at Fulda Elementary School gymnasium.
The comedy of the script of “The Odd Couple” was brought out by the cast of Alex Carney (Oscar Madison), Dale Sandberg (Felix Ungar), Joel Ide (Murray), Matt Saxman (Speed), Daniel Uttech (Vinnie), Dwayna Paplow (Roy), Heidi Appel (Gwendolyn Pigeon), and Eden Bengston (Cecily Pigeon).
The entire play is set in an apartment on Riverside Drive – a scenic thoroughfare on the west side of Manhatten – New York City. The year was 1965. Oscar Madison was already dealing with the death of his marriage and separation from his wife and children. He was “living it up” by going to work as a sports writer, playing Friday night poker with the “boys”, being financially irresponsible, and sloppily keeping up his living quarters.
Along came dejected Felix Ungar whose wife had just informed him that she wanted a divorce. Distraught and anguished, Felix wanders the streets contemplating his life and trying to plan to exit life at the earliest possibility. However, something stops him from executing any suicidal plans and he finds himself at Oscar’s apartment on Poker night. The other players already know about Felix’s pending divorce and the fact that he had told his wife he was going to kill himself.
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