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Witch in 204, The

Latch your windows! Bolt your door! Beware of The Witch in 204! You know your property value has plummeted when a witch moves in next door! But, that’s not retired schoolteacher, Sylvie Goldberg’s only trouble.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Senior Theatre
Latch your windows! Bolt your door! Beware of The Witch in 204! You know your property value has plummeted when a witch moves in next door! But, that’s not retired schoolteacher, Sylvie Goldberg’s only trouble.

Sylvie’s hopes of living happily-ever-after with Eugene, the “otherworldly” gentleman of her dreams, soon dissipate when the witch next door, Bella, turns out to be Eugene’s mysterious former paramour, who proceeds to wreck havoc on Sylvie and Eugene’s wedding day as the uninvited guest. Scandal quickly ensues when Bella mistakes Sylvie’s neighbor, Evelyn Greenbaum, for Sylvie and attempts to poison Evelyn with a lethal brew of pills and booze. Eugene skips town endeavoring to escape Bella’s witchy wickedness and leaving Sylvie with a dire warning to “Beware of The Witch in 204.” 

The sequel to Barbara Pease Weber's popular play Seniors of the Sahara, The Witch in 204 is a modern day fairy tale for grownups with fond memories of being both thrilled and terrified by wicked witches, genies, wizards, ghosts and goblins in the fables of our youth.  
REVIEWS:

"...the play is a treat for audiences both young and old."

 Montgomery News

"In case you missed Seniors of the Sahara, you can meet many of the same characters in The Witch in 204. Written by Barbara Pease Weber, it is her fourth play to premier at Old Academy Players in East Falls and is a sequel to Seniors... I loved the comedy and the capers."

 Chestnut Hill Local

"With The Witch in 204 Weber weaves a bewitching tale of ageless romance and the magic of true love through the lives of those who have lived (seniors), which is entertaining, hilarious and, refreshing!"

 Stage Magazine

Premiere Production: The Witch in 204 premiered at the Old Academy Players in 2011.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors

  • BELLA - The Witch in 204 (wicked to the core! otherwise what’s the fun of being witchy?)
    FANNIE - Sylvie’s good friend and neighbor (a “bride-to-be retiree”)
    THELMA - Another of Sylvie’s good friends (and an animal right’s activist’s worst nightmare)
    SYLVIE - A retired New Jersey school teacher (whose wedding plans are foiled by The Witch in 204)
    HERMAN - Fannie’s true love and Mabel’s cousin (not to mention a real Wizard at War Games)
    MABEL - Sylvie’s very best friend (and an enterprising yenta!)
    EVELYN - Sylvie’s neighbor and wedding guest (and the tipsy victim of The Witch in 204)
    EUGENE - The love of Sylvie’s life (despite his “otherworldliness” and that he skipped town on their wedding day. Ain’t love grand?)

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    Latch your windows! Bolt your door! Beware of The Witch in 204! You know your property value has plummeted when a witch moves in next door! But, that’s not retired schoolteacher, Sylvie Goldberg’s only trouble.

    Sylvie’s hopes of living happily-ever-after with Eugene, the “otherworldly” gentleman of her dreams, soon dissipate when the witch next door, Bella, turns out to be Eugene’s mysterious former paramour, who proceeds to wreck havoc on Sylvie and Eugene’s wedding day as the uninvited guest. Scandal quickly ensues when Bella mistakes Sylvie’s neighbor, Evelyn Greenbaum, for Sylvie and attempts to poison Evelyn with a lethal brew of pills and booze. Eugene skips town endeavoring to escape Bella’s witchy wickedness and leaving Sylvie with a dire warning to “Beware of The Witch in 204.” 

    The sequel to Barbara Pease Weber's popular play Seniors of the Sahara, The Witch in 204 is a modern day fairy tale for grownups with fond memories of being both thrilled and terrified by wicked witches, genies, wizards, ghosts and goblins in the fables of our youth.  

    		$24.95

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