Winner 2009 Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest
Esmerelda Quipp is 80, still of sound mind, but her body is beginning to "come unglued," as she puts it. Having spent her working life as an actress, age pushing her gradually out of the business, she now faces the fact that her meagre government pension is insufficient to support her, even with her minimal needs. When she is arrested for attempting to bury her dead cat in her landlord's yard, she finds that there is some sense of community, not to mention free room and board, within the prison system. She devises a plan to get...