One Toe in the Grave

By Jack Sharkey

Jason Kingsley is treasurer of a billion dollar patent medicine corporation that requires its officers to be married. Jason claims his wife has a rare disease that prevents her from entertaining or attending corporate functions. A cure is accidentally discovered in one of the company's patent medicines and Jason's ecstatic boss is arriving any minute with the company doctor to administer the cure and then bask in the publicity. Jason, however, doesn't really have a wife so he cons his fiancée Nicki into pretending to be the invalid. Other impostors appear: friend Poopsie Magruder who initially refused shows up anyhow and Vonga the Jungle Girl was pressed into service by the helpful housekeeper. The cure involves a two inch needle in the armpit and it develops that the disease is contagious, which only complicates the hilarity.

-      From Samuel French website   

The Cast for

One Toe in the Grave

Jason Kingsley - Zach Guzman

Monica/Nicki Channing - Linda Siegwald

Naomi Schuyler - Rosa Leigh Sullivan

Thornton Murdock - Max Allen

Douglas Procter - Jeff Strickman

Poopsie Magruder - Madeleine Miller

Vonga - Marilou McIntyre

Director: Jim Hyte

Tickets on sale at Westbrook Village's Vistas and Lakes Recreation Centers and online at www.WestbrookVillagePlayers.org

Annual 10-Minute

Playwriting Competition

The Westbrook Village Players sponsors an annual 10-minute playwriting competition in the spring to encourage local talent to submit plays for consideration for production.

More details here:

• Guidelines for the competition

• January 14 Playwriting Workshop Registration

• Playwriting Submission Form

• Playwriting Tips and Help

Winning playwrights will be notified by e-mail/phone and also announced at the spring production in March 2012. A list of winning plays and playwrights will be posted on the Westbrook Village Players website (www.WestbrookVillagePlayers.org) after winners are notified.

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