"A farcical black comedy about corporate values -
combines black-hearted satire with laugh-out-loud humor."
Denver Post

Comedy. By Mark D. Kaufmann
Cast: 5m., 2w. "Corporate raider Douglas Jensen has patterened his life on a very simple principle: virtues like honor and respectability don't work. So he doesn't use them. The man dresses like a CEO and thinks like a water moccasin!" (Denver Center Theatre) His lovely, unfortunate wife, Anna, writes poetry, which he criticizes mercilessly. Jensen's next takeover target is a glue factory owned by Lloyd Price, who is desperate to keep his little business. Jensen puts terrible pressure on Lloyd, who manages to hold out. So Jensen plans his next step - doing away with Lloyd. Meanwhile turnabout becomes fair play as the beleaguered Lloyd hires two bumbling hitmen who work out a Laurel and Hardy poison plan, one posing as the caterer, the other as a waiter whose tray of drinks includes a poisoned martini. The result? Poison flows in surprising directions. "The final scene is pure Orton," a critic suggests, "with a corpse on the bed and people making up wild stories to cover their tracks." Area staging. Photo: Denver Center Theatre production. Photo by Terry Shapiro.