DEARLY DEPARTED
by David Bottrell & Jessie Jones, Director
Pat Shull
In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin
family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and
always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves
together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin’s other problems keep
overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself
silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling
financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects
him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful,
copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the
neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with
mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell
nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.”
Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and
neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull
together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally,
the funeral.
October 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 at 8pm and October 4, 11 at 3pm.
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