A whole town in Texas is hilariously represented in the upcoming theatre production “Greater Tuna” at the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The Perk Players will present the musical in the Malone Hall Black Box Theatre April 20-22, 2010, with a 7 o’clock curtain each evening. Robert Barrett, theatre instructor at the Perkinston Campus, is directing the production.
The play is set in Tuna, a mythical small town in Texas, where everyone listens to the local radio station, all 275 watts of it. Topping the headlines is the winning entry in the American Heritage Essay Contest, entitled "Human Rights, Why Bother?" Tuna's residents include a variety of eccentrics, bigots and oddballs. There's Aunt Pearl, who poisons the town's stray dogs; Bertha Bumiller, who continually makes everyone’s business her own business; Vera Carp, vice president of the Smut Snatchers Club; and Didi Snavely, a gun shop owner, who decorates her Christmas tree with hand grenades.
The cast of 11 includes Trae Spears as Bertha Bumiller and Vera Carp; Tony Russell as Thurston Wheelis; Danielle Rockforte as Arles Struvie; and Brittany Blackmon as Didi Snavely, Petey Fisk and Hank Bumiller.
Admission is $5. For ticket information or reservations, call 601-928-6369.
