Bespoke Overcoat

Fender,  and old Jewish night watchman, suffers bitterly from the cold and is unable to afford one of the luxury sheepskin overcoats sold by his boss, so he asks Morry, a Jewish tailor to repair his old one. “ ….. dies even while his friend is making him his first good overcoat. He has waited all his life for such a coat but dies in grief beforehand.” (Concord Theatrical). 

Fender returns as a ghost.  In a drunken stupor, the tailor sees his dead friend. “The ghost of Fender has returned to take his due of the living - the harsh employer who dismissed him for being too old. Nothing will satisfy him but a coat from his employer's stock, and Morrie in his dream helps his friend to raid the warehouse.” (The Play Bureau)

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This was the first play to rehearse in the Studio space after Cranbrook Community Theatre Society was granted stewardship of the city-owned Mason Hall, renamed the Studio Stage Door.