Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.
유명한 작곡가인 조지는 42살의 생일을 맞는다. 하지만, 가수인 애인 샘과의 사랑도 이제는 가슴이 설레이지 않고, 인생무상, 허무하기만 하다. 그 때 문득 길 위에 옆 차에 탄 웨딩드레스의 젊은 여자, 제니를 보고 단숨에 사랑에 빠져 무작정 결혼식장까지 쫓아간다. 그리고는 그녀의 아버지인 치과의사에게 충치를 한꺼번에 6개씩이나 치료를 받아가면서 그녀의 소재를 알아내 신혼 여행지 멕시코까지 쫓아간다.
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
