A BAD YEAR FOR TOMATOES

Saturday night we had tickets to the South Baldwin Community Theatre and saw the play A Bad Year for Tomatoes. This is the third play we have gone to see at SBCT. This was a very entertaining play. Lots of laughs and good acting.

Myra Marlowe, the main character is an actress that has moved to a small New England home in the village of Beaver Haven. She decides to take time off work and write her biography. Her friend, Tom Lamont helps her move in and does have feeling for her. Tom leaves to go back to LA.

Neighbors, Reba Harper and Cora Gump come to welcome Myra to Beaver Haven and fill her in on other people in the community. Reba is a nosey neighbor that knows everything about everyone in Beaver Haven. Cora is a drinker which lends to more laughter in the play.

Willa Mae Wilcox is another neighbor and claims to have the ability to read your palm. In Scene 2 she reads Myra's palm which lends to details later. Piney is also a neighbor that performs odd jobs and comes to pay a visit to see if Myra needs manure, firewood or hickory nuts.

Every time Myra begins to write her biography by using her tape recorder, these neighbors come and interrupt Myra. Myra finally concocts a mental sister thinking this will prevent these neighbors from coming to interrupt her.

All of the acts and scenes take place in her living room in Beaver Haven. The plan to invent a mental sister fails and this brings another character on stage, the sheriff.

I could go on and on describing each scene and more about the characters, but this is all I will tell you about this play because maybe some day you will go see A Bad Year for Tomatoes and be entertained as much as we were.

"Goodby until later".