Robin Swicord

Full Length, Comedy drama

2m., 3 f.

Int.

Jeri Lee is about to close down her Dixie Girl Cafe in a Georgia town. She's a sweet, if slightly dotty, religious fundamentalist who believes she's destined to bear another Messiah and she's going to marry widowed Wayne Blossom, Sr., a fanatical right winger who runs a sheet metal shop and does a brisk business in bomb shelters on the side. Wayne, Jr., who runs the filling station, is a philanderer married to disillusioned, tomboyish Joy. The youngest of the Blossom family, Lanette, is going to college on a baton twirling scholarship. These are real people. Each one faces a personal holocaust; each one is saved from it or succumbs to it. The central idea has to do with the power of love.

"Best American comedy of the year." WWD.

"Inspiring, hilarious and touching, it skillfully blends madness, pathos and off beat philosophy. . . . A lovely play." Newark Star Ledger.

FEE: $75 per performance.