In Marry Me!, interactive bits allow us to ask questions and comment at various stages of the romance between dweeby English teacher Brian and stylish French secretary, soon to be his student, Marie Helene. However inauspicious their initial meetings, he's convinced "She likes my method; my method is me." So, unfortunately, is his poor French, leading him to mistake publicity for a movie (which he can't talk to her about) and get a sky-high flat, to which the elevator is always broken. Still, he eventually gets her not only there but "off to the seaside." After a rough journey, disastrous rainy days at Margate find his proclamations of love falling on her deaf earplugs. Menus offer eggs and chips, sausages and chips, fish and chips. Imagine her thrills at winning a Panda and seeing pix of his life in England!
A year later, Brian, in beret, thinks he has adapted. Will she "shack up" with him? Only, she feels, in a more expensive apartment and with a solution to his problem of not really being French: "Not everyone's privileged." An impasse? No, the start of more adventures, including seeing Harrison Ford at the Tour Eiffel, Brian getting work in the Metro, and each posing and passing a silly test (his on culture; hers on English phrases - especially funny in determining the meaning of "nippy"). The actors handle the audience's questions and dictates as well as embody the characters with such ease, we might well think the story is theirs.
