The Panties, The Partner and The Profit: Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class

David Ives (The Liar, The Heir Apparent, The Metromaniacs, and The School For Lies) will return to Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) to collaborate with Artistic Director Michael Kahn during his final season at STC.

Inspired by the epic pre-World War I trilogy of German playwright Carl Sternheim—Die Hose, Der Snob, and 1913—Ives sharpens his celebrated wit to razor-like social commentary to devise The Panties, The Partner and The Profit: Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class and promises to deliver an evening filled with satire and silliness—panties falling, dueling pistols going off, brunch being eaten and other signs of near-apocalypse.

Transporting the audience from Boston in 1950 to Wall Street in 1986 to lavish Malibu today will be Julia Coffey, last seen at STC in The Merchant of Venice; Carson Elrod, currently playing Dromio of Syracuse in STC’s The Comedy of Errors; Kimberly Gilbert recently seen at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in The Arsonists; Kevin Isola from the Broadway production of Brooklyn Bay; Turna Mete from New York’s The Parable Conference and Soldier X and Tony Roach, returning to work with David Ives after his roles in The Metromaniacs and The Liar.