Name: Making Sweet Tea and Other Secrets
Start: 2025-08-20T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-20T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Dennis R Neill Equality Center

Creative Sort Productions Presents “Making Sweet Tea and Other Secrets” by Paul Elliott, Directed by Allison and Wyatt Freeman.
Dottie and Ruth Hamilton have always kept their lives in order, living each day in rural isolation and contentment. All of that changes when the sheriff drops a battered teenage girl on their doorstep and asks them to keep her safe. Neither is prepared for the role of savior, and they are even less inclined when they find out the girl is really a boy and the person who has almost killed her is her father, one of the most respected members of their small community. The question is, can these two older women overcome their own ingrained ideas of how life should be to protect a teenager they don’t even understand? Making Sweet Tea and Other Secrets refers to all the hidden bigotry, prejudice, and even brutality that a town will turn a blind eye to, until forced to bring those secrets to light and fight back.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE: This play contains mature themes such as alcoholism, gun violence, sexual violence, and domestic abuse. Viewer discretion is advised.
STARRING:
Caroline McDonald ...... Dottie
Jackie Smola ................... Ruth
Michele Ross .................. Sheila Ray
Dillon Dean .................... Sheriff Robert
Blaine Denny .................. Amber
Wyatt Freeman ............. Doc Marshall
Allie Freeman ................ Janie Marshall
Creative Sort Productions would like to thank our sponsors, Hippie Chick Heart, Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, and Pat Hobbs for helping bring this timely story to life.