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Sordid Lives

  • Del Shores
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy
  • 6M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9780573630439

[This play by] the master of Texas Comedy...is maybe funnier than Daddy's Dyin'. His colorful eccentrics are dead on, teetering on a Bowie knife's edge between the hilarious, improbably and the achingly real.

The Los Angeles Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy


  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 14 DramaLogue awards including Best Production
Now in a newly Revised Edition. A black comedy about white trash! The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles. 

When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover's wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.
REVIEWS:

[This play by] the master of Texas Comedy...is maybe funnier than Daddy's Dyin'. His colorful eccentrics are dead on, teetering on a Bowie knife's edge between the hilarious improbable and the achingly real.

The Los Angelas Times

Run, don't walk to Del Shores new play!

DramaLogue

Pick of the Week.

L.A. Weekly
Premiere Production: Sordid Lives was originally produced by Del Shores in association with Jeff Murray and Nicolette Chaffey for Theatre/Theater in Hollywood, California, May 11, 1996. It was directed by Del Shores.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 6F
  • Casting Notes: These people are real. Don't play them as cartoons, please.

  • BITSY MAE HARLING - the guitar playing ex-con singer
    TY WILLIAMSON - 27, a beautiful gay man on a journey
    SISSY HICKEY - mid-50s, the caretaker who picked the wrong day to quit smoking
    NOLETA NETHERCOTT - early 40s, the angry overweight betrayed housewife
    LATRELLE WILLIAMSON - early 50s, Ty's uptight, proper mother
    LA VONDA DUPREE - late 40s, Latrelle's liberal-minded worldly sister
    G.W. NETERCOTT - late 40s, the distraught legless Vietnam Vet
    WARDELL "BUBBA" OWENS - late 40s, the former gay-bashing, remorseful bartender
    ODELL OWENS - mid-40s, Wardell's worthless story-telling brother
    DR. EVE BOLINGER - late-40s, the over-sexed, pill-popping, alcoholic therapist
    EARL "BROTHER BOY" INGRAM - late-40s, the Tammy Wynette obsessed transvestite
    REV. BARNES - the Southern Baptist preacher (Author's suggestion is to double case with the actor who plays ODELL)

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    Now in a newly Revised Edition. A black comedy about white trash! The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover's wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.

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