This one is played straight, but it has more ridiculous turns than a wacky sit-com episode.

In this play, we're introduced to a man who is very attractive to women. He puts himself in a position to be blackmailed by several of the women who want to be close to him.

A scheming man orchestrates his wealthy wife’s death through a long slow accumulation of poison in her blood stream. Upon her death, he contacts his other love interests and contrives a premise upon which they can get together while still maintaining an appropriate period of grieving. Seems a perfect plan until the housemaid approaches him with a proposition thinly veiled as blackmail. She knows about what he did and forces him to enter into a relationship with her so she can have a share in the estate.