Jun 5 – Jul 4, 2009
Matinees: Jun 21 and 28
Jun 5 – Jul 4, 2009
Matinees: Jun 21 and 28
TROPICAL DEPRESSION. In a slightly seedy resort hotel on a remote Caribbean island, two high living Texas housewives, Gloria and Janine, are enjoying a respite from their rich but boring husbands. They are determined to savor their holiday to the fullest, but nature has other plans. First they get burned to a crisp by the tropical sun, then a hurricane imprisons them in their tacky room. In between, however, Gloria defiantly spends a great deal of her absent husband's money on various "art treasures," while Janine (a former Miss Texas) pays for the favors of a handsome lifeguard, an act which jolts them both back to reality and makes them reexamine just who they are and what they really want from life.
In the second play, TWISTER, Betty and Roy are apparently the only
survivors of a tornado that
has destroyed their tiny Texas town and all their worldly goods. After the
initial shock wears off Roy
sets about trying to restore things to what they were, while Betty, suddenly
freed from all the junk she
owned, wants to move on and start over. The resulting debate is both hilarious
and revealing, as Roy
resists the notion that what they had was nothing great while Betty pours out
all her hopes and
frustrations that have been bottled up for years. In the end it is the dream
that triumphs: Betty charges
off to catch a bus that may never arrive, and Roy attempts to hold onto the
present that is fast becoming the past.
