"Farce of Nature" presented by the Covered Bridge Players

Fri May 02 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm UTC-05:00

The Neely Arts Center | Oneonta

The Covered Bridge Players at the Neely Theatre
Publisher/HostThe Covered Bridge Players at the Neely Theatre
"Farce of Nature" presented by the Covered Bridge Players
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"Farce of Nature" is coming this May to the Neely Theatre in downtown Oneonta! Don't miss this stellar group in this hilarious show!
Season ticket holders & donors: reserve your seats NOW at coveredbridgeplayers.ludus.com! Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, April 14th at 8am.
Directed by Casey Taylor
THE CAST:
MICHEAL HOLLINGSWORTH as D. GENE WILBURN
AMANDA HOLLINGSWORTH as WANELLE WILBURN
BEN BAILEY as TY WILBURN
STEEVIE BAILEY as JENNA SEALY
CINDY HASTINGS as MAXIE WILBURN SUGGS
ZACH BUSE as CARMINE DELUCA
JOE HASTINGS as SONNY BARBOSA
ALETHA TAYLOR as LOLA BARBOSA
ANNA FREY as ROXANNE THORNE
THE STORY: The non-stop hilarity of this Southern-fried farce highlights one day in the life of the Wilburn family of Mayhew, Arkansas. Meet D. Gene Wilburn, the owner and proprietor of the Reel ’Em Inn, the finest little fishing lodge in the Ozarks. Well, it used to be, but lately business is down, tourists are few, and the lone guest who’s just checked in—an extremely jittery Carmine DeLuca from Chicago—is only there due to a location shift in the Witness Protection Program. Doesn’t anybody just want to fish anymore? Certainly not D. Gene’s frustrated wife, Wanelle, who’s fed up with their lackluster romantic life. She’s taken drastic steps to improve it through hypnotic suggestion and, for the life of him, D. Gene cannot understand why his pants keep falling down. D. Gene’s feisty sister Maxie has her own problems, chief among them battling ageism to resume her career in law enforcement. She’s determined to prove her worth by keeping Carmine DeLuca alive through the weekend—a task that’s going to prove to be much harder than she bargained for, since she keeps losing both her gun and the bullets. And she never anticipated the gangster Camine’s been dodging for the last five years, Sonny Barbosa, is about to walk through the door, in hot pursuit of his sexy wife, Lola. Seems the headstrong Lola has driven hundreds of miles to the lodge to follow her boytoy, D. Gene and Wanelle’s son, Ty. But Lola meets her match in Ty’s seemingly innocent girlfriend, Jenna, whose patience has reached the breaking point after months of waiting for Ty to come home. In the deliciously funny romp that ensues, they all hide, lie, disguise themselves, and slam doors chasing one another, while trying to figure out the source of an increasingly awful stench. By then it’s too late and the lodge is surrounded by vicious critters and hungry varmints that have followed the odor down from the hills. Yet by the delightfully chaotic climax of this one outrageous day, love blossoms, truths are revealed, and the lives of all—family, guests, and gangsters alike—change in incredible and surprising ways. This side-splittingly funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy is guaranteed to win your audiences over—hook, line, and sinker!
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The Neely Arts Center, 306 1st Ave E,Oneonta, Alabama, United States

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