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Short Play, Comedy / 2w, 2m
Tennessee Williams
Miss Dorothy Simple, proprietor of the Simple Notions Shop in Primanproper, Mass., has barricaded her house and heart behind a double row of petunias.
Miss Dorothy Simple, proprietor of the Simple Notions Shop in Primanproper, Mass., has barricaded her house and heart behind a double row of petunias. Today, however, she has woken up to find every single petunia crushed by the footprints of a size-eleven-D shoe. When the perpetrator, a Young Man, arrives to confess his crime, he comes on a mission to alert Miss Dorothy to the "miraculous accident of being alive." Armed with poetry, seeds for wild roses, and a business card from "LIFE, INCORPORATED," the Young Man endeavors to convince Miss Dorothy of the tremendous inspiration that lies beyond what one can buy or sell in a shop with four walls.
A part of the collection The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays.
The Case of the Crushed Petunias premiered at the Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, OH in February 1957 under the direction of Reuben Silver.
The Simple Notions Shop in Primaproper, Massachusetts.