Who says a funeral can't be a riotous good time?
It didn't come as a shock to anyone who knew her that, at the age of sixty-three, Bella died as outrageously as she lived, in a hotel bathtub surrounded by scandal. The fact that she spent decades meticulously planning her own funeral, and demanded that all the guests dress up as dead celebrities, that was a bit of a surprise.
On a glorious Summer's day in an English garden, Lucille, Jocelyn, Miriam and Carla, Bella's closest friends, transform themselves for the occasion into Boudicca, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth I and Princess Margaret. Fueled by an endless supply of pink champagne and chocolate truffles, they spend a delightfully bawdy afternoon reminiscing and uncovering the mysteries of Bella's life.
This one act play is eighty minutes of heart-warming hilarity, terribly British and really, rather fabulous.
