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Olive and the Bitter Herbs
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2f, 3m
"A colorful, sweet-and-sour Busch dish, laced with plenty of laughs." - The Associated Press
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Cast Size
2f, 3m -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Not Applicable -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
Olive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic "Gimme the Sausage" commercials of the 1980s. She is a classic New York curmudgeon, at war with the world and in particular her next door neighbors. Her closed-off life is shaken by the appearance of a spectral male figure viewed through her living room mirror. A series of strange and outrageous coincidences reveals that the man in the mirror has intimate links to everyone in Olive's world and most revealingly to Olive, encouraging her that it's never too late to change one's life.
Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
- Time Period Contemporary
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Cautions
- Alcohol
Media
Videos
Olive and the Bitter Herbs
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Olive and the Bitter Herbs
Music
- Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
- Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
- Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
Charles Busch
Charles Busch is the author and star of such plays as The Divine Sister, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, The Confession of Lily Dare and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; one of the longest-running plays in the history of off-Broadway. His play The Tale of the Allergist’s ...