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Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The

Part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 10 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore is a long-time tenant in a cockroach-infested boarding house - but she lives convinced that she owns a Brazilian rubber plantation. The landlady has always humored her, but when Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore can't make her rent the two women start to argue. Just then, a mysterious writer steps in on the side of fantasy.

Part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

Premiere Production: The Lady of Larkspur Lotion premiered at the Monceau Theatre in Paris in 1948.
  • Casting:

  • MRS. HARDWICKE-MOORE
    MRS. WIRE
    THE WRITER