Double Wide, Texas
by Nicholas Hope, Jessie Jones, and Jamie Wooten
Directed by Scotty Kennedy
April 27-30, 2023
Auditions for Double Wide, Texas will be held on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 2:00 pm and on Monday, March 6, 2023 at 7:00 pm at the Weatherford Centre in Red Bay, AL. Auditions will consist of cold reading from the script. Roles are available for three men and six women.
Tickets will go on-sale on Monday, April 17, 2023. If you would like to bring a group to this production, please contact Beth Hammock at 256-668-0045.
Tickets will go on-sale on Monday, April 17, 2023. If you would like to bring a group to this production, please contact Beth Hammock at 256-668-0045.
Synopsis:
In this hilarious, fast-paced comedy, the inhabitants of one of the smallest trailer parks in Texas—four doublewides and a shed—are thrown for a loop when they realize the nearby town of Tugaloo is determined to annex them. And it’s not as if they don’t already have enough to deal with. Joveeta Crumpler has had it up to here, having been passed over again for a promotion at work. On top of this, she has an ongoing battle to keep her feisty mother, Caprice, out of the local bar and worries that her good-ol’-boy brother, Baby Crumpler, is taking his participation in a womanless beauty pageant way too seriously. Joveeta’s big-hearted best friend, Georgia Dean Rudd, is struggling to keep her diner and finances afloat, but she just can’t curb her impulse to take in every stray cat, possum, and armadillo that wanders by. Then there’s Big Ethel Satterwhite, who’s nobody’s fool. But tough as she is, she’s continually frustrated by her clients at Stairway To Heaven Retirement Village as well as her mule-headed husband, O.C., who shows far more affection for his BarcaLounger than he does for Big Ethel. And all the residents are plagued by Haywood Sloggett, the curmudgeon from across the road, who loathes their “trailer-trash” ways, especially their keeping a life-size illuminated nativity scene up year ’round. But these friends, enemies, and neighbors realize they’ll have to work together to defeat the encroaching annexation if they—and their way of life—have a snowball’s chance to survive being swallowed up by “the big guys.” The rollicking mayhem of this flat-out funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy escalates as the residents attempt to secede from Texas, discover a traitor in their midst, and turn the tables in a surprising and side-splitting finale. So grab your Stetson and come on over to Doublewide, Texas, where life is double the fun, double the joy, and where audiences double over with laughter!
In this hilarious, fast-paced comedy, the inhabitants of one of the smallest trailer parks in Texas—four doublewides and a shed—are thrown for a loop when they realize the nearby town of Tugaloo is determined to annex them. And it’s not as if they don’t already have enough to deal with. Joveeta Crumpler has had it up to here, having been passed over again for a promotion at work. On top of this, she has an ongoing battle to keep her feisty mother, Caprice, out of the local bar and worries that her good-ol’-boy brother, Baby Crumpler, is taking his participation in a womanless beauty pageant way too seriously. Joveeta’s big-hearted best friend, Georgia Dean Rudd, is struggling to keep her diner and finances afloat, but she just can’t curb her impulse to take in every stray cat, possum, and armadillo that wanders by. Then there’s Big Ethel Satterwhite, who’s nobody’s fool. But tough as she is, she’s continually frustrated by her clients at Stairway To Heaven Retirement Village as well as her mule-headed husband, O.C., who shows far more affection for his BarcaLounger than he does for Big Ethel. And all the residents are plagued by Haywood Sloggett, the curmudgeon from across the road, who loathes their “trailer-trash” ways, especially their keeping a life-size illuminated nativity scene up year ’round. But these friends, enemies, and neighbors realize they’ll have to work together to defeat the encroaching annexation if they—and their way of life—have a snowball’s chance to survive being swallowed up by “the big guys.” The rollicking mayhem of this flat-out funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy escalates as the residents attempt to secede from Texas, discover a traitor in their midst, and turn the tables in a surprising and side-splitting finale. So grab your Stetson and come on over to Doublewide, Texas, where life is double the fun, double the joy, and where audiences double over with laughter!
A Bad Year for Tomatoes
By John Patrick
Directed by Mark Richardson
February 9-12, 2023
By John Patrick
Directed by Mark Richardson
February 9-12, 2023
Seated L-R: Holly McKinney, Brittany Faris, Tina Smith and Sharon Page Strickland.
Standing L-R: Brente Jeffreys, Theron Struzik and Scotty Kennedy.
Murder Me, Murder Me Not
By William Springer
Directed by Molly Thorn
November 10-13, 2022
By William Springer
Directed by Molly Thorn
November 10-13, 2022
The Bay Tree Council for the Performing Arts in Red Bay, AL announces their 2022-2023 season! The first production, Murder Me, Murder Me Not by William Springer, will be November 10-13, 2022; their dinner theater production, A Bad Year for Tomatoes by John Patrick, will be February 9-12, 2023; and the third and final production of the season, Doublewide, Texas by Nicholas Hope, Jessie Jones, and Jamie Wooten, will be April 27-30, 2023.