Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon

Performance Dates & Tickets

About the Play

The morning after the bachelor party can be tough. And sometimes terrifying!

Directed by Barbara L. Rhoades

Just what a prospective groom needs the morning of his wedding day: he wakes in his own bridal suite, with his bride-to-be about to arrive any moment, and finds a naked girl in bed beside him. What's more, an extremely attractive naked girl, whom, in the depths of his post stag-night hangover, he can't remotely remember even having been introduced to. The ensuing chaos reaches nuclear proportions.

Bill (the groom) – Adam V. Young
Tom (the best man) – Eric Oswald
Rachel (the bride) – Rachel D. Zake
Judy (the girl) – Brenda Redmond
Julie (the chambermaid) – Denise Bernstein
Daphne (the bride’s mother) – Elaine Sonnie

This rare combination of riotous farce and touching love story has provoked waves of laughter across the United States and Europe. “Every cue is spot on, every joke a winner.” – Cologne Express

Have Your Perfect Wedding at CVLT

CVLT is offering a 'perfect wedding' on the Perfect Wedding set to any interested couple (opening and closing nights excepted). The theatre will provide the stage and will play any music provided on the theatre's sound system. A wine and cheese reception in the theatre's River Room, as well as free tickets for the bride and groom and a group discount to their family and friends are also included. Interested couples should send a 100-word or less statement on why they'd like to celebrate their special day in this unique way to nancy@cvlt.org by June 5. A three-person committee of CVLT Board members will choose the winner.

Wedding Gown Silent Auction

Asilent auction of designer bridal gowns will be held throughout the run of Perfect Wedding. The gowns below and others will be on display and up for auction bids in the theatre lobby through the run of the show.

About the Playwright

Robin Hawdon has had an extremely varied career. From novelist and West End playwright, to soap actor, beefcake film star and Hamlet, to director of one of England’s foremost theatres, his activities have spanned numerous aspects of the arts. 

His comedy Don't Dress for Dinner was a hit at CVLT in 1996, and his most recent play, God and Stephen Hawking, about the phenomenal advance of modern science and its effect on traditional philosophical thinking, caused something of a stir in the national press when Stephen Hawking himself took objection to being portrayed on stage, despite the fact that the play was seen by most people as a tribute to his extraordinary life and career.