LAUNDRY AND BOURBON (Directed by Jade Gilroy) is the first one-act to be presented and focuses on three small-town Texas ladies getting together for an afternoon of lots of gossip and a little bit of laundry – all the while sipping generous quantities of bourbon. Elizabeth (Leanne Keely)is tidying up the homestead when friends Hattie (Stephanie Hudson) and Amy Lee (Bernadette McStapleton) drop in for a few hours of silly chit-chat and catty observations about their world and the hapless people in it. Including, it seems, themselves as they slowly turn to boiling mode while folding Elizabeth’s pristine laundry. Baring the soul has rarely been so much fun.

LONE STAR (Directed by Tom Holian) is presented after the intermission. We’re still in Maynard, Texas; and it’s still in the 1970’s. In fact, it seems to be happening at pretty much the same time as the ladies, laundry, and hootch which preceded it. Only now we get to focus on each wife’s spouse – and what they chat and brag about when there are no women present. Roy (Kevin Woods), Ray (Leo Walsh), and Cletis (Brian Kearns) are spending some quiet time at the local watering hole discussing life, love, and whatever comes into the minds of these good ol’ boys. Like their spouses noodling in Elizabeth’s back yard, innocent and silly thoughts slowly ferment; and – little by little – secrets begin to emerge. What kinds of secrets? You’ll have to see the show to find out.