Community LastoftheRedHotLovers onstage in New West

Don’t miss the fun as Royal CanadianTheatre Company winds up its season with Neil Simon

JulieMacLellan jmaclellan@newwestrecord ca

The Royal Canadian Theatre is getting ready to spice things up for its spring production

The company is staging Neil Simon’s comedy The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, at the Anvil Theatre in NewWest this month after a run at the Surrey Arts Centre

The production marks the final show selected by the Royal Canadian Theatre’s artistic director emeritus, Ellie King, before her retirement and the company’s artistic director, Kerri Norris, is putting a special spin on the production.

The show usually features four actors: one man and three women. For this show, though, Norris has cast one woman for all three roles

Justin Spurr takes the stage as Barney Cashman, with CrystalWeltzin appearing as Elaine, Bobbi and Jeanette.

“The acting duo have had so much fun creating this production and working together in each act to create a fun, sexually awkward comedy,” a press release noted.

Nicole DesLauriers directs the play, which follows the story of Barney a happily married, 47-year-old father of three children who has hit a midlife crisis.

As the release noted, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers examines what it means to grow older and asks the question,

“What do you do when it seems as if your life hasn’t been fully lived?” How many chances will Bar- ney get to create a beautiful moment, and how many strangers will he bring back to his mother’s