Synopsis
The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope
Published by Samuel French Inc
The setting is England, 1784 and Sir Toby Trollope is to be hanged by King George III for tax evasion
Toby conspires to save his neck by marrying his imbecilic son Bartholomew to a rich young woman so he can live off her father's wealth
What could possibly go wrong?
Plenty!
They meet and quickly offend England's richest man, Sir Alex Hardegristle who destroys anything he doesn't understand and his beautiful but hallucinatory daughter, Fanny
The Hardegristle madness stems from 600 years of inbreeding. In fear of their lives, the Trollopes flee England on the HMS Bounty
In the ensuing mutiny, they are thrown overboard and into the middle of the Boston Tea Party
They now meet and are quickly swindled by John Hancock, a sleazy insurance salesman; Paul Revere, a fast talking pots and pans vendor hawking his latest invention Reverware; and George Washington with his spring loaded wooden teeth
Events escalate to Lexington Green, where the Trollopes accidently spark off the American Revolution. But for these buffoons, American might have remained a peace loving British colony
"Hilarious" ~ Variety
"A wacky, hysterical rather than historical farce from those manufacturers of mayhem" ~ L.A. Theatre & Entertainment Review
"A must see laugh riot" ~ Albany Times