Lafayette, CO 80026
By: C. Denby Swanson
Directed By: Madge Montgomery
May 1 – May 23
Theater Company of Lafayette is proud to present the regional premiere of “The Norwegians,” a play which The New York Times hailed as a “profane and playfully dark comedy that is often hysterical.”
Written by C. Denby Swanson, and directed by TCL veteran Madge Montgomery, this quirky comedy takes place in Minnesota and is about two women, Olive and Betty and the really, really nice gangsters – Norwegian hit men – they hire to whack their ex-boyfriends.
Olive is a transplant from Texas, and Betty from Kentucky, but neither of them was prepared for the Norwegian men they would fall in love with there – the practical, warm, thoughtful, destructive, evil, jilting kind. If you're a hit man in Minnesota, 83% of your clients want to take out their ex (oofda!). Betty has referred Olive to Gus and Tor, a partnership in the whacking business. What Tor doesn't know is that Gus has been sleeping with the clients. What Olive doesn't know is that Gus is Betty's own ex, and she has already put out a hit on him with a Swiss firm. Can Betty call off the job in time to let Gus do his? Should she?
