Die Hose - Carl Sternheim

An amateur theatrical company in search of a lesser known, off-beat and humorous production  might like to check out Sternheim’s “Die Hose.”
 
More than just a wacky play lampooning the German middle class of the day, it has moments that are delightfully surreal.
 
In 1911, when it would have translated as “The Drawers,” the Berlin police censored the title. Today, it should pull the punters in when you stage it as “The Knickers.” It opens with Frau Maske having lost said undergarment on the street, after which her husband get his own knickers in a twist as his bourgeois ambitions are repeatedly tugged down.