 Evam's 2 is an ODD number!
 The Odd Couple by
evam is evam’s 5th offering to the Chennai audience, our 2nd play of Season II this year and most importantly celebrates evam’s first anniversary. Yes! evam turns 1 in September 04- evam’s journey from ART to
Python Hyssssteria, Love Letters to Death has been nothing less than exciting and the group thanks all concerned for their support in making it possible!
"In our first year we have traversed the genres of comedy, serious drama, love story, thriller and now to celebrate our birthday we return with a comedy," says Sunil, its CEO.
This September evam stages 8 shows of 'The Odd Couple by evam'-a situational comedy which on one hand is about two opposite people (out of their marriages) deciding to stay together and the chaos and
humour which is generated as a result, while on the other hand the story is about
friendship, and loneliness -- it gives us a glimpse into what makes us cling on to our friends even when they are so opposite to us and can drive us over the wall with their antics -- the uncanny bond, which makes friendship such an odd-even relationship! Somewhere it also touches about how easy it is to lose people and how difficult to stay on and make things work -- and sometimes you don’t get a choice at all!
In all, the promise is of an un-adulterated comedy- a simple story told simply!
This September, evam invites you to have a look into the lives of Felix and Oscar, and their friends Vinnie, Murray, Roy, Speed and of course be on time to join them in their poker game on Saturday night!
The stakes are up-DEAL!
The ODD Couple by evam
A brand new production from evam’s cauldron – it's about friends, it's about life, it's about warming your hearts, and making you Laugh….
Dates for Performance
Sep – Launch at The Park, for exclusive invitees and the media
Sep 17, 18, 19*, 24, 25, 26* – Public Showings at Sivagami Pethachi Auditorium
Oct 1st – Supper Theatre Showing at The Savera
*matinee shows at 2.30 pm also on these days
The ODD Couple by evam
 Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That’s the premise of The Odd Couple by
evam……
Felix and Oscar are an extremely odd couple: Felix is neurotic, precise, and fastidiously clean. Oscar, on the other hand, is the exact opposite: sloppy and casual. The friends are sharing an apartment, and their differing lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts, and laughter for the audiences.
The Odd Couple by evam, is evam’s 5th production in Chennai, and 2nd as part of its Season II – and is in keeping with evam’s promise of wholesome quality entertainment on stage……
More on the Odd Couple History:
The Odd Couple –the film (1968) Review:
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Mathau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner, Larry Haines
Directed by: Gene Saks
 Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE has been a hit in three different incarnations. First, in 1965, there was the Broadway production starring Art Carney and Walter Matthau as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. The play was filmed in 1968 with Matthau and Jack Lemmon, then turned into the
TV series featuring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. Though the movie opens up the one-set original to include scenes in restaurants, streets, a motel, a ballpark, and a bowling alley, the sequences set in Oscar's Riverside Drive apartment form the heart of the play; director Gene Saks keeps these intact for the movie. Matthau's deadpan
Oscar is the perfect foil for Lemmon's melancholy yet funny Felix. The scenes involving the two are alternately riotous - as when Oscar becomes fed up with Felix's constant fussing - as when Felix cries in front of the Pigeon sisters, his and Oscar's dinner dates. John Fiedler shines as one of Oscar's four poker-playing buddies. THE ODD COUPLE, in whatever version, is ultimately a comedy about friendship enduring despite differences, and this theme is communicated superbly by the team of Lemmon, Matthau, and Saks.
The only successful adaptation of a Neil Simon play, this tale of two divorced men sharing an apartment paired Matthau with Lemmon, and no one has ever looked back since. Matthau is the fun-loving, untidy, gambling and smoking sports reporter who makes the big mistake of allowing pal Lemmon - a miserable, compulsively tidy hypochondriac - to move in with him when his marriage is on the rocks.
Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? This movie proves that the answer is no. Oscar is a sloppy New York sports writer. Felix is a fussy neat freak who writes the news for television. Both are divorced and share an apartment. Felix complains about a pickle on the floor, and Oscar complains about Felix washing Oscar's poker cards. Yes, they get on each other's nerves endlessly, that is, until Oscar throws Felix out. All in all, a classic comedy by Neil Simon.
In 1998, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau resurrected their roles for the film Odd Couple II, produced by Neil Simon.
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