Six unknowing guests have RSVP’d to a dinner at a private dining room in a first-rate restaurant in Paris. Arriving in a staggered manner, they eventually realize they are the three divorced couples-providing makings of the farce Simon intends the first half of the play to be. Five of them were mistaken into thinking a man they hold in high regard (who happens to be their divorce lawyer) is hosting the party, but he never shows up, and appearances prove…