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Back by Popular Demand - The Process Theatre Company and Whole World Theatre present a co-production of two Del Shores plays in repertory this fall. From the acclaimed playwright comes Southern Baptist Sissies and Sordid Lives. Back from its sold out run; join Southern Baptist Sissies, which follows the journey of four gay boys growing up in the Baptist Church. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. With Sordid Lives, we become intimate with the family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of their mother. Among the characters is the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood and the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette. We’re doing the new updated version and that includes Juanita, the chain smoking, wise cracking barfly. Fri & Sat, 8pm now-Dec 8, 2007. Click here to see calendar
$25. Student and Senior Discounts Available. Whole World Theatre’s 3rd Space, 1226 Spring Street. 404-817 PLAY (404-817-0880) or visit www.wholeworldtheatre.com.
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Show: Southern Baptist Sissies by Del Shores
directed by DeWayne Morgan
Dates/Times:All shows at 8:00 Nov 16, 24, 30 and Dec 8.
Show: Sordid Lives by Del Shores
directed by DeWayne Morgan
Dates/Times: All shows at 8:00 Nov 17, 23 and Dec 1, 7.
Ticket Prices:
$25 Friday and Saturday
Discounts available for students, seniors and military.
Reservations Box Office: 404-817-0880; www.wholeworldtheatre.com.
PHOTOS AND ARTWORK AVAILABLE, IF YOU NEED A HIGH RESOLUTION JPEG FOR YOUR
PUBLICATION, PLEASE EMAIL FRANKIE EARLE AT tptpublicity@bellsouth.net OR CALL
404-245-4205.
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ABOUT Southern Baptist Sissies
With a theme of religion clashing with sexuality, the play opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles during its original run in 2000 and became the most awarded play of the year, winning the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding LA Theater Production, as well as multiple LA Weekly Theater Awards, Los Angeles Critics Awards, Ovation Awards, Backstage West Garland Awards and Robby Awards. "Daring. Heroic. No-holds-barred hilarious." --LA Times. "Cathartic, comedic, awe-inspiring." --Daily Variety. "Brash, sensitive and compelling. An evening of engrossing and, at times, hilarious theatre." --The Hollywood Reporter. "Distinctive and arresting. A funny and yet strangely moving treatment of goodhearted, wacky Texans suffering through an intolerant world." --Chicago Tribune. "Wrenching as it is hilarious." --Dallas Morning News.
ABOUT Sordid Lives
When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a seedy motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas. We become intimate with the Sordid Lives of a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of their mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters (one strait-laced and one quite a bit looser). Theatre reviews: “His colorful eccentric are dead on, teetering on a Bowie knife’s edge between the hilarious improbable and the achingly real.” L.A.Times. –“Run, don’t walk to Del Shores new play!” DramaLogue – “Pick of the Week.” L.A. Weekly. Winner of 14 DramaLogue awards including Best Production.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Del Shores has won many awards for his plays “The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Park Housewife,” “Daddy’s Dyin” (Who’s Got the Will?),” “Sordid Lives,” and “Cheatin’.” The TV Station LOGO is devel-oping a TV series based on "Sordid Lives" by Del Shores. “Southern Baptist Sissies” is currently being made into a movie with Delta Burke in the role of Odette Annette Barnett and Leslie Jordan in the role of Peanut.
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THE CAST AND CREW
Southern Baptist Sissies
Mark Lee Fuller – Topher Payne
T.J. Brooks/Male Stripper – Matt Sutter
Andrew Thomas Ford – Marcelo Banderas
Benny/Iona Traylor – Greg Morris
Preacher – DeWayne Morgan
Brother Chaffey/Houston – David Stephens
Preston Peanut Leroy – George Deavours
Odette Annette Barnett – Jo Howarth
Mama – Kellie Fortner
Peanut u/s – Dan Balmer
Sordid Lives
GW Nethercott – Allen Hagler
Noleta Nethercott – Andrea Milonig
Latrelle Williamson – Jo Howarth
Ty Williamson – Greg Morris
Lavonda Dupree – Kim Salome
Brother Boy – George Deavours
Wardell Owens – David Limbach
Dr. Eve Bolinger – Renee Payne
Sissy Hickey – Christa Sfameni
Bitsy Mae Harley – Rebecca Puckett
Odell Owens – Clay Seymour
Juanita – Jane Bass
Preacher – Tom Trimble
Brother Boy u/s – Dan Balmer
Co-Director for Southern Baptist Sissies – DeWayne Morgan
Co-Director for Southern Baptist Sissies – Barbara Cole Uterhardt
Director for Sordid Lives – DeWayne Morgan
Producer – Chip Powell
Costumer – Alan Yeong
Lighting Designer – Nina Gooch
Stage Manager – Betty Mitchell
Click here to see cast and crew bios
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