COOS BAY — People in love do strange things.

Under the right circumstances, even someone who normally doesn’t color outside the lines might do something impulsive, like rush into marriage.

With true love, it’s even imaginable that this sane, responsible person would entrust his new, decidedly less responsible partner to pick out housing and sign a lease without seeing the place — a one-room apartment on 48th Street in Manhattan for $125 a month, or $850 in 2008 dollars.

What’s really hard to believe is that real estate in New York was ever so cheap.

Maybe the landlord was in love, too. Or too busy laughing to notice the deal Neil Simon gave his newlyweds in “Barefoot in the Park,” which continues this weekend at Marshfield High School.

For the Madrala Players, it’s been more than a year since their last full-length production, and the time off seems to have done them some good.

Of course, the apartment has its flaws: The plumbing and the heat don’t work quite right, and it’s drafty with a hole in the skylight.

As a lawyer, Paul (Brady Esch) really should have checked out what he was getting himself into. Though Corie (Gabby Spano) is evidently old enough to get married, she seems closer to the stage of her life that involved watching Saturday morning cartoons than buying furniture.

Somehow, these two met, experienced the full force of opposites attracting, and after a whirlwind romance ended up here, in an empty apartment on the fifth floor of a building with no elevator.

Despite its flaws, it’s a steal at that price, but Paul dwells on the negatives.

“I don’t see how you can be so calm about it,” he says of the prospect of it snowing in the apartment.

“What would you like me to do about it?” she asks.

“Go to pieces, like me!”

The hole is fixable, but another sticking point for him is the lack of a bathtub. But Corie only sees the potential, countering her husband’s every objection with praise for her find.

But then something happens to make Corie change her tune dramatically — the buzzer rings, and it’s her mother (Courtney Henry). The time it takes a 50-year-old woman to climb five flights of stairs is enough for Corie to whip herself into quite a panic over the inadequacy of her choice and her mother’s expectations.

For someone with no idea how to please her mother, Corie managed to choose a husband with many of the same qualities: Ethel is cautious and reserved, mature and predictable. But if she disapproves of her daughter’s impulsive choices, she’s too polite to say so.

Before her long overdue furniture arrives, Corie must entertain a second guest: Victor Velasco (Josh Carter), an eccentric neighbor who lives upstairs in the attic. Despite learning she’s married, Victor flirts relentlessly and shamelessly. He also reveals a habit of avoiding paying his rent. It’s quite an impression he makes, but Corie’s reaction is to try to fix him up with her mother, inviting both to dinner on the same night.

Her logic is actually quite consistent: Victor and Ethel are about as far apart in personality as she and Paul are, so if one is a good match, the other must be. But logic is of so little use in a Neil Simon play.

The first couple of days go as well as can be expected, but the marriage can only get so far before the truth comes out that Paul and Corie have nothing in common. Of course, a big fight is coming, and with the maturity levels involved, that means talking through a telephone repairman (Zach Jones).

It’s all too silly to care whether they resolve their differences. The important thing is that whatever happens, it will be funny.

The play is directed by Erika Meidl and the cast also includes Noelle Novotny.

It continues through Sunday, with performances at 7 tonight and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 and $7 for seniors and children.