Above: The Perk Players will present “Steel Magnolias” on October 14-16 at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Perkinston Campus. From left are (Seated), Lauren Roosa-Wise, Naomi Page, and (Standing) Olivia Russell, Breanna Harbuck, Grace Dougharty, and Kaitlyn Clark.
Join Us for Our Fall Presentation
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Perk Players will present “Steel Magnolias” by Robert Harling on October 14-16, 2015, in the Malone Hall Black Box Theatre. Performances will begin at 6:30 each evening.
About “Steel Magnolias”
The play provides both comedic moments and those filled with drama and sadness. In the end, it is deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness that underlies the antic banter of its characters. The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, (“I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a bad mood for forty years”); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M’Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a “good ole boy.”
Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
Perk Players Cast and Crew
Cast members include Grace Dougharty as Truvy Jones; Breanna Harbuck as Annelle Dupuy; Olivia Russell as Clairee Belcher; Naomi Page as Shelby Eatenton; Lauren Roosa-Wise as M’Lynn Eatenton; and Kaitlyn Clark as Ouiser Boudreaux.
Crew includes Robert M. Barrett, Director; Kenley Havard, aAssistant Director; Chris Hubbart, Production Assistant; and Avery Nahlix, Stage Manager. Other crew are; Lights-Austin Lee; Sound- Mark McDonnell; Make-up and Wigs-Naomi Page, crew chief, Casey Clemons; Costumes- Christionne Mitchell, crew chief, Romanda Taylor, Casey Clemmons, Breoshia Jackson, Maryona Anderson and Lindsey Ladner; Running Crew – Avery Nahlix, crew chief; Anthony Goretski and Christie Guthrie; Publicity Crew-Brinson Smith, crew chief, Steven Mikel, Amber Davenport, Kathleen Gartman and Breoshia Jackson; Set Construction- Lief Henley, crew chief, Brinson Smith, Joshua Oliver, Avery Nahlix, Jaden Hatcher, Landin Funches, Maureen Farmer, Amber Davenport and Chase Kirk; Properties Crew-Rebekah Rigby, crew chief, Chase Kirk, Nateisha Moffett, Dustin Poteet, Ashley Eckhart, Donkevious Benoit and Kelsi Jimerson.
Ticket Information
General admission is $5. For more information, call (601) 928-6369.