A Bad Year for Tomatoes (Comedy Play @ Mount Pleasant)
Schedule
Fri Jul 05 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+09:30Location
Mount Pleasant Institute Hall | Gawler, SA
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EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - listing retained to assist in sharing this information. Please watch our Facebook page for news! A BAD YEAR FOR TOMATOES by John Patrick is a comedy play set in the 1970s small town of Beaver Haven in New England, America.
Mount Pleasant Soldiers' Memorial Hall. July 5 - 14.
Bookings online via www.tott-tg.com.au or phone 0492 992 991.
Gracious, glamorous Myra Marlowe, fed up with fame after a very long career as a television actress, retreats to Beaver Haven, planning to live quietly and anonymously, write her juicy autobiography, and grow her own tomatoes.
The complaints of her faithful agent and less faithful lover, Tom Lamont, that she is throwing herself away on a backwards backwater of a town, fall on deaf ears, until she gets to know her neighbours: Reba and Cora, the Hospitality Ladies, full of rapid fire gossip and rapid fire questions; woodcutter Piney, impressively bearded and smelling of the great outdoors, who terrifies his victims with the force of his sales pitch, and Willa Mae Wilcox, the widow woman with the purple shutters on her house, who put a voodoo curse on her husband.
With these colourful characters inviting themselves over at every hour of the day, Myra gets no time to write, and in frustration, invents a dangerous, mentally disturbed sister -- based on her first, best-known TV role, Sis Sadie -- to frighten away her neighbours and give her some peace and quiet.
However, the upstanding citizens of Beaver Haven react in unexpected ways to Sadie’s shrill, childlike charms and sad plight, and before her charade is over, Myra finds herself accused of murder! A Bad Year for Tomatoes is a ridiculously clever comedy, with brisk and uproarious dialogue and sharply comedic characters.
All at the Mount Pleasant Soldiers' Memorial Hall. July 5 - 14.
Bookings online via www.tott-tg.com.au or phone 0492 992 991.
Tickets - Adults $25, Concession $20, Children $15
Cabaret style seating with BYO Drinks and Nibbles, or snacks and drinks and bottomless coffees available at our canteen!
Book now to secure the best seats in the house!
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Where is it happening?
Mount Pleasant Institute Hall, 128 Melrose St, Mount Pleasant SA 5235, Australia,Mount Pleasant, South Australia, GawlerEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
