sentences:  The play, based on a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, has been revived twice on Broadway since its original run.Academy Award winner (for his 1937 short film "Torture Money") Harold S. Bucquet directed.The story is a retelling of a Greek fable in which Death is tricked into climbing a pear tree which had been blessed by Saint Polycarp to trap anyone who was trying to steal an old woman's pears.