About Bespoke Overcoat
Fender, an 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)
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.
Bespoke Overcoat was entered into the 1974 East Kootenay Drama Festival (Theatre BC)
One-Act Plays, held in Cranbrook
AWARDS
- Adjudicator’s Award of Merit
- Best Actor: Bud Abbott & Phil Foster (shared)
- Best Supporting Actor: Randy Birch
Performers
Bud Abbott
Morrie
Phil Foster
Fender
Terry Green
Ranting
Randy Birch
Clerk
