Three Sips of Saki, Season 64, 2025

“Three Sips of Saki” by H. H. “Saki” Munro

Directed by Janine Campbell and Peter Grady

This “play” is really three short comedies in one.  The plays are based on stories written by an English humorist whose pen name was “Saki”.

“The Baker’s Dozen” is about two English aristocrats who want to get married, but they have 13 children between them.  “13” is such an unlucky number that they try to give one of the children away.

“The Open Window” is about a nervous young man from London who needs rest in the country to calm his nerves.  At a house in the country, he encounters a young woman who realizes that he can be easily frightened and intimidated.  She makes up outrageous lies to terrorize the young man and make him scurry back to London.

“The Story-Teller” is about two children who are behaving badly on a train and their aunt cannot control them.  A stranger offers to tell them a story–which delights the children and horrifies the aunt.