Comedy Characters: 8 female, 6 male or 9 female, 5 male, 1 extra, male or female. Interior Set Winner of the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence. There's dirty work afoot at Ye Olde Wayside Inn, home of the eccentric Saltmarshes, Hepzibah and Arabelia, Cousin Ebenezer, and old Uncle Silas, oldest living lunatic in Massachusetts. The inn is also haunted by the ghost of an old soldier who deserted Washington at Valley Forge. Foul weather turns Cousin Ebe | It Was A Dark And Stormy Night by Tim Kelly, Paperback | Indigo Chapters