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Laying the Ghost

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  5w, 2m

Simon Williams

Laying the Ghost
by Simon Williams

Margot Buchanan is a witty ex-actress in a retirement home. She is visited by a young actress who is having an affair with Leo, Margot's ex-husband - and by Leo's current wife Judy. Leo arrives but suffers a fatal heart attack. Thus the scene is set …

Laying the Ghost

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Margot Buchanan is a witty ex-actress in a retirement home. She is visited by a young actress who is having an affair with Leo, Margot's ex-husband - and by Leo's current wife Judy. Leo arrives but suffers a fatal heart attack. Thus the scene is set for chaotic hilarity as Leo's ghost appears, anxious to sort out matters between his three women, and visible only to Margot's psychic friend Freda!
M2 (young, 71) F5 (young, middle age, elderly, 70). 2 extras.
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A sitting area in a retirement home

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