"A Bad Year for Tomatoes"

The Festival Playhouse presents

A Bad Year for Tomatoes

Written by John Patrick

Directed by Charles Ault

Opening on Friday, July 11, The Festival Playhouse presents John Patrick’s A Bad Year for Tomatoes.  Performances run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. & Sundays at 2 p.m. through July 20. Tickets are $14.00 Fri\Sat; $12.00 Sun. and available by calling 303-422-4090. The Festival Playhouse is located at 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd. in Arvada. More information at www.festivalplayhouse.com.

Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven, and settles down to write her autobiography. She is successful in turning aside the offers pressed on her by her long-time agent, but dealing with her nosy, omnipresent neighbors is a different matter. In an attempt to shoo them away, and gain some privacy, Myra invents a mad, homicidal sister--who is kept locked in an upstairs room, but who occasionally escapes long enough to scare off uninvited visitors. 
 

The ruse works well, at first, but complications result when the local handyman develops affection for "Sister Sadie" (really Myra in a fright wig) and some of the more officious ladies decide it is their Christian duty to save the poor demented Sadie's soul. In desperation Myra announces that her imaginary sibling has suddenly gone off to Boston--which brings on the sheriff, and the suspicion of murder! Needless to say, all is straightened out in the end, but the uproarious doings will keep audiences laughing right up to the final curtain, and then some.

Charles Ault, Sr. started The Player Guild in 1936 as a means to put food on the table in the middle of the depression. A love for the theatre and a creative mind brought a group of talented community actors and actresses together to provide the public with live entertainment. This concept was passed on to his son Charles Ault, Jr. who now runs The Players Guild.

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The Festival Playhouse presents

A Bad Year for Tomatoes

This hilarious play peeks into the life of a star who finds her attempts to get away thwarted by the locals.

July 11 - 20

Fri\Sat 8 p.m. & Sun at 2 p.m.

The Festival Playhouse, 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd.

Tickets are $14.00 Fri\Sat; $12.00 Sun

Box Office: 303-422-4090
festivalplayhouse.com

Appropriate for all ages