This billowy saga of the South Seas tells the story of Kissy Kelly, a sweet but determined young woman
searching for her father on the tiny island of Pango Pango. Daddy Kelly has disappeared without a
trace, and his famous tavern, Shipwreck Kelly's, is now a health-food store named Shipwreck Nelly's.
Nelly is an unscrupulous, greedy character who has enslaved three pretty castaways and now has her
dirty claws on Kissy. Into this decaying tropical paradise comes C. S. Hornforester, a brave cabin
boy fresh off a Kansas farm, determined to rescue Kissy and find her father's fortune. Premiered
at Playwright's Center, San Francisco. There's lots of action, with opportunity for South Sea Island
music and dances. For adults and young adults. Two acts; food store interior; 1880's costumes.
Last Tango in Pango Pango is Eddie Cope's light-hearted spoof of nineteenth century American tragic drama which has been
transformed through the decades and through incompetent management into comic melodrama. Other Clark
offerings include Cope's popular Agatha Christie Made Me Do It
and its follow-up Agatha Christie Tackles Texas, a
tongue-in-cheek spoof of all things Texan.
Other Cope plays: Airport 1904, Don't
Print That, Frankenstein's Centerfold, The
Invisible Man, Without a Clue
See also: Melodramas