Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Mesa Encore Theatre's Second Sunday Play Reading for April - FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS - April 9

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" by Alan Ball

Directed by: Van Rockwell

Cast:

FRANCES...Samantha Elise-Tennant
MEREDITH...Amber Wright
TRISHA...Brenna Jackson
GEORGEANNE...Carrie Fee
MINDY...Amie Bjorklund
TRIPP...David Magadan

When: Sunday, April 9th at 7pm

Where: MET Black Box, 933 E Main St Mesa AZ 85203

Cost: $0.00 (donations graciously accepted though)

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister, whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent, and touching celebration of the women's spirit.
An irreverent and funny look at the intricacies of friendship and the power of similar dressing. "…[a] wonderfully entertaining play…" —NY Post. "FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS is a fresh-as-a-daisy comedy, funny as can be…" —NY Daily News. "Ball has the comic writer's requisite talent for dialogue that ricochets snappily around the stage." —TheaterWeek.

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