This swift farce runs headlong into hilarious complications. Horace Vandergelder, a widower and owner of the feed store, hires the marriage broker Dolly Levi to find him a wife, but she instead sets her sights directly on him. Wilder’s much-celebrated farce brims with slapstick, mistaken identities and foiled secret rendezvous. Professor Louis Rackoff, director of “The Matchmaker,” believes the play asks a very important question: “Can a person have a happy life without at least a little bit of adventure?”
Prior to the performance on March 9, a pre-performance talk will be held in Woods Theatre and presented by Maureen Ryan, interim dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of English.
