The Virtue of Pretty Penny
The Virtue of Pretty Penny or A Foul Murder Foil’d
by Simon Palmer
Penny, beautiful, simple and deliciously rich, is beset by suitors: venal bankers with no thought of love who seek merely to avail themselves of her fortune. However, our heroine has eyes only for Count Euro, whose exotic charm is compounded by chronic ill-health.The bankers, scenting their rival’s advantage, set out to destroy him whilst at the same time trying Penny’s virtue by subjecting her to threats and humiliations. At length, however, by suitably improbable means, love triumphs, the plot to murder Count Euro is discovered and Penny and he are united; the wicked bankers are confounded.
Au Camionneur, Strasbourg, 15 and 16 May 2014