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Dearly Departed

Dearly Departed

David Bottrell and Jessie Jones

February 12, 1998
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February 28, 1998
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Directed by
Jim Houghton

Southside Theatre Guild is excited to present this special engagement!

As a special event, it is NOT a part of our regular season of shows and is not included in your season ticket.

In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpins’ other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.

Dearly Departed
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Cast List

Character

Played by

Marguerite
Gloria Wright
Raynelle
Susan Gillespie
Bud
Scott Benson
Royce
Chris Federhofer
Lucille
"Glo" Hahn Tinsley
Ray-Bud
Daniel L. Pratt
Suzanne
Heather May
Junior
Chris Thurman
Rev. Hooker
Michael McClendon
Delightful
Joy Crisp
Veda
Antonette Mitchell
Norval
Bill Gordon
Nadine
Penny Duffey
Charles Bronson
Andy Houghton
Clyde
Peter Morgan
Juanita
Pam Taylor
Merline
Marian Johnson

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