True Crimes

Mary Sparks clings to Logan the most, but she is married to a rich older man, Soony Sparks. Vangey, Logan's mother, comes up with a plan to set Logan working for Soony, so that Logan and Mary can continue their affair, gain Soony's trust, and after his imminent death, move onto the farm

With a little help from natural herbs, Soony dies and Mary and Logan marry. Everything is fine until Nancy, Soony's daughter from his first marriage, seduces Logan and becomes pregnant. To keep Nancy quiet, Mary and Vangey scheme to marry her off to the son of a good family and send the bastard child to an orphanage

But after the baby is born, Mary, Vangey and Ab, Logan's father, force Logan to kill the child. Before the marriage comes off, however, Sawdust, the seemingly slow-witted handyman, reveals himself to be a very sly con artist, and blackmails them into giving him nearly all the cash they have in order to buy his silence about the killing

Logan, consumed with guilt over what he has done, seems ready to tell the world of the crimes committed until Vangey reminds him of his complicity. Realizing things will fall into place if he says nothing, in the last moment of the play, as the neighboring family approaches to discuss the wedding, Logan silences his confessional urges and waves to them in welcome

A dark look at America's fascination with real life, celebrity killers and it's effect on our souls. When murder is romanticized and murderers become famous, does everyone else come to believe it is all right to kill in order to get ahead?