The Vegetable Plot
The Vegetable Plot (or Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth) started out as a Murder Mystery - but then it got hijacked in the middle and turned into a pantomime.
At the centre of everything is grumpy old Aunt Nellie Dean, and her niece Suzy Starlight who spends all her days vacuuming the carpets and dreaming of a prince to carry her away on a white horse. And of course there are plenty of clever crooks out there who will offer to transform your life. Who say they will pay you a fortune for old junk, or offer you a rich spiritual future, or change straw into gold.
The play starts out with a cast of fairly reasonable crooks - there is Jack the Lad, who always has an eye for the main chance; there are Conman and Sid, who have their eyes slyly fixed on the old cow picture; there is the family of a President, exiled for corruption, who think that marrying the son to a rich woman could be the way back to fortune, and there is Swindler, with pockets full of everything from the deeds to the Berlin Wall to a packet of beans.
And, as in all the best pantomimes, there is a transformation scene when everyone's dreams come true...
At the centre of everything is grumpy old Aunt Nellie Dean, and her niece Suzy Starlight who spends all her days vacuuming the carpets and dreaming of a prince to carry her away on a white horse. And of course there are plenty of clever crooks out there who will offer to transform your life. Who say they will pay you a fortune for old junk, or offer you a rich spiritual future, or change straw into gold.
The play starts out with a cast of fairly reasonable crooks - there is Jack the Lad, who always has an eye for the main chance; there are Conman and Sid, who have their eyes slyly fixed on the old cow picture; there is the family of a President, exiled for corruption, who think that marrying the son to a rich woman could be the way back to fortune, and there is Swindler, with pockets full of everything from the deeds to the Berlin Wall to a packet of beans.
And, as in all the best pantomimes, there is a transformation scene when everyone's dreams come true...
