FLOWERS IN THE DUMPSTER
by TREMAYNE
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FLOWERS IN THE DUMPSTER Summary
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Macbeth meets Blithe Spirit in this stylized, satiric, black farce. A
couple, Peter & Patsy Paltry, pretentious but shabby aging boomers, has been
trapped managing a women’s used clothing shop in a dreary slum. They hang-in
only because they hope to inherit the shop, the building & a major fortune
when their benefactor, Duncan, dies. But the old man meets young Penny, who
is, unknown to him, a hooker. He is about to adopt the woman & her child
Polly, meaning the couple will inherit little or nothing. Goaded by his
stronger wife, Peter murders Penny after 1st sampling her wares, but fails to
kill Polly as ordered. He indirectly causes Patsy’s death & is later haunted
by the spirits of both women. Duncan insists that Peter bring up Polly & the
crooked lawyer Pariah forces him to accept Mrs. Peripat, an aged, gentle bag-
lady as a live-in baby-sitter. Upon Duncan’s eventual death, Pariah reveals he
has proof Peter killed Penny & assumes control of the estate even though Peter
is the presumptive trustee until Polly reaches 18 when she will inherit. Peter
is haunted continuously through the years until justice catches up with him.
Things get complicated & look dark for the now mature Polly, but Mrs. P. shows
her a way out. (Based loosely on an actual murder-revenge case of which the
author knew the principals.) |
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