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Olive and the Bitter Herbs

  • Charles Busch
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573700071

"A colorful, sweet-and-sour Busch dish, laced with plenty of laughs."

The Associated Press

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
Olive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic "Gimme the Sausage" commercials of the 1980s. She is a classic New York curmudgeon, at war with the world and in particular her next door neighbors. Her closed-off life is shaken by the appearance of a spectral male figure viewed through her living room mirror. 

A series of strange and outrageous coincidences reveals that the man in the mirror has intimate links to everyone in Olive's world and most revealingly to Olive, encouraging her that it's never too late to change one's life.
REVIEWS:

"Mr. Busch is perhaps equaled only by Paul Rudnick in his ability to churn out well-turned, archly funny zingers..."

The New York Times

"A group of New Yorkers seemingly brought together by chance find that their ties run deeper than they could imagine in Charles Busch's fantastical new comedy Olive and the Bitter Herbs..."

TheatreMania

A colorful, sweet-and-sour Busch dish, laced with plenty of laughs.

The Associated Press
Premiere Production: Olive and the Bitter Herbs was commissioned by Primary Stages and premiered at 59E59 Street Theatre in New York City in 2011, under the direction of Mark Brokaw.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • OLIVE
    WENDY
    TREY
    ROBERT
    SYLVAN

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    Olive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic 'Gimme the Sausage' commercials of the 1980s. She is a classic New York curmudgeon, at war with the world and in particular her next door neighbors. Her closed-off life is shaken by the appearance of a spectral male figure viewed through her living room mirror. A series of strange and outrageous coincidences reveals that the man in the mirror has intimate links to everyone in Olive's world and most revealingly to Olive, encouraging her that it's never too late to change one's life.

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