COME FOR THE MURDERS, STAY FOR THE NAUGHTY. COME FOR COMEDY, PREPARE FOR HORROR…
The garden club is a funny, warm chance for older actresses to shine! – Celise Kalke – Synchronicity Theatre
Rose Treppendahl, fifty-five, the current owner of her family’s historic home in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi is forced to take in boarders due to financial difficulties, whom she quickly murders and uses as fertilizer in her prize-winning tomato garden.
Synopsis: It’s Game Night at Beaufort for Rose and friends when her lover, (Sheriff) John, arrives with bad financial news and her first boarder. Threatened with losing her home, Rose relents to the boarding arrangement when cash payments are promised. However, the first boarder dies when an act of kindness – a tuna fish sandwich – goes terribly awry.
Rose discovers the government checks keep arriving even when the boarders are dead. She gleefully resorts to poisoning, hatcheting, running over, hammering and strangling each new boarder as they take residence at Beaufort. Behold the beginning of greatest agrarian revolution since the invention of the wheel!