One evening Treat brings home an intended victim, an older man, Harold, who turns out to be extremely rich but on the run himself from thugs who want to kill him. In a series of funny yet strangely touching plot twists, Harold takes shelter with the brothers and establishes his base of operations within their home, all the while becoming the father-figure the boys have yearned for. Part thriller, part drama, at once wildly comic and breathlessly suspenseful, Orphans has been compared in style and tone to works by Pinter and Shepard, with a searing emotional intensity that lingers long after the final words are spoken. Two theatre critics, with the unlikely names of Moon and Birdboot, view and remark upon the latest thriller while between them a running commentary on their own lives ensues. We encounter the lovely widowed countess and her girlfriend, the young man she has just met through the girlfriend, and the crippled brother of the countesses' dead husband.
Cards are played, lustful innuendo is displayed, the party disperses and murder is committed.
Inspector Hound appears, an odd bit of fortuitous timing, because no one has called him. A fast-paced comedy of misplaced identities and ringing phones, bound to keep minds buzzing and audiences gasping with laughter. Those wonderfully wacky women from Farndale are at it again with show as funny as the Dickens'. A must-see alternative to the traditional holiday fare.