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A Bad Year for Tomatoes by John Patrick
Fed up with the presures and demands of her acting career, a famous actress 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 friend, 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 a room, but who occasionally escapes long enough to scare off uninvited visitors. The ruse works, but complications result when the local handyman develops an affection for "Sister Sadie" (Myra in a fright wig) and some of the more officious ladies decide it is their Christian duty to save demented Sadie's soul. In desperation Myra announces that her imaginary sibling has gone off to Boston - which brings on the sheriff and the suspicion of murder! Needless to say, straightened out in the end, but the uproarious doings will keep audiences laughing up to the final curtain, and then some.
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