Grinder Productions is pleased to present Dirty Deeds at Handlebar Dan’s House of Old Wives, or How Sally Simple Saved the Sarsaparilla Saloon. As to what this “Gay 90’s” style melodrama is all about, well the title is so long that it pretty much says it all! 

Join us at the Ennotville Library as we recall its younger days - the 1890’s - and tell a very tall tale of mystery, villainy, and life in the old Southwest… of Fergus. How will a simple, honest, homespun girl like Sally Simple save Handlebar Dan and his darling daughter Claribelle from the evil greed of Munro “Moneybags” McLean when all she has for help are a bunch of “helpless” old ladies and a hapless hero snoring in a corner?

Power. Betrayal. Lust. Blood. Fate. These, and more, are the threads that weave the tale of Electra. 

The story centers on the house of Agamemnon, whose patriarch has been murdered by the usurper Aegisthus, in collusion with Agamemnon’s wife Clytaemnestra, as revenge for sacrificing their child Ipheginia to the Gods in return for safe passage to the Trojan War. It is now many years later. Orestes, the only son of Agamemon and Clytaemnestra, has been banished from Argos, on pain of death and Electra, the only remaining daughter, has been married off to a peasant, in order to prevent her from giving birth to a noble son who can avenge Agamemnon’s murder. But what Aegisthus doesn’t know is that Orestes has just returned from exile, told by an Oracle to avenge his father’s murder, and that Electra’s marriage has never been consummated - she is still a virgin, and thus a danger to him as well. Together brother and sister work to fulfill the bloody wishes of the gods.