Overview
This hit from the Ridiculous Theatre Company consists of two one-act plays: Awful People Are Coming Over So We Must Be Pretending to Be Hard at Work and Hope That They Will Go Away and Only a Countess May Dance When She's Crazy. Both are tour de forces for comic performers.
In the first, a Roosevelt Democrat sits under a tree watching fireflies and bewailing the mists of old age. Next, the same actor plays a countess who has lost everything but her money, her dignity and her looks. Rapidly changing costumes from one elaborate dress to another, she sings while waiting for an epiphany of the soul.