Synopsis

Olive and the Bitter Herbs

Olive and the Bitter Herbs $10.99

Charles Busch

Published by Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Olive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic "Gimme the Sausage" commercials of the 1980s

She's 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 ...

"A colorful, sweet-and-sour Busch dish, laced with plenty of laughs" ~ The Associated Press

Characters ...

OLIVE - a woman in her seventies

WENDY - an energetic upbeat woman around fifty

ROBERT - an attractive man around sixty

TREY - Robert's partner, somewhat younger

SYLVAN - a dignified man in his seventies

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