Loot

A murderously funny black comedy! Joe Orton loved to make us laugh at our social and sexual taboos. When Hal robs a bank and hides his booty in his mother’s coffin, who will discover it first—the crooked detective or the homicidal nurse? Directed by comic genius Andrei Belgrader, Loot guarantees a murderously funny evening.

SYNOPSIS

Hal and his pal Dennis have just robbed a bank and need a place to stash their loot. With the police hot on their trail, the boys decide to hide the stolen cash in the coffin that contains Hal’s late mother, Mrs. McLeavy. While old Mr. McLeavy is busy cataloguing the flowers sent in memory of his wife, Hal and Dennis stuff the mommy in the wardrobe and the money in the casket. Fay, Mrs. McLeavy’s nurse, stumbles upon her dead patient and demands a cut in the action. But before the three criminals can sneak away with their booty, the notorious Inspector Truscott of the Yard starts snooping around the house and throws a wrench in their plans. What ensues is a farcical game of cover-ups and crack-ups peppered with Joe Orton’s epigrammatic style of dramatic delivery.

Performed in repertory with Full Circle.