HUDSON, NC (January 26, 2017)…Join us for our spring comedy dinner theatre production, “Farce of Nature!” 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, (Stephen Starnes), 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, (Adam Lowery), 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, (Angie Warren), 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, (Carolyn Icard), 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 that the gangster Carmine’s been dodging for the last five years, Sonny Barbosa, (Doug McCowan), is about to walk through the door, in hot pursuit of his sexy wife, Lola, (Emma Lee Kurts). Seems the headstrong Lola has driven hundreds of miles to the lodge to follow her boy toy, D. Gene and Wanelle’s son Ty, (Nick Chamberlain). But Lola meets her match in Ty’s seemingly innocent girlfriend, Jenna, (Tera Enloe), 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, cross-dress, 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 you over—hook, line, and sinker!
The show will be performed at the Hudson Uptown Building (HUB) 145 Cedar Valley Road, Hudson on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th, 31st and April 1st. The show will be presented at 7:30 PM, preceded by dinner at 6:30 PM. Dinner will be catered by Dan’l Boone Inn. Tickets are $30 for dinner and the show, $15 for the show only. Tickets go on sale, Monday, February 6th and may be obtained by visiting the HUB Box Office at 145 Cedar Valley Road, or by calling 728-8871. The box office is open 8:30 until 12:30 and 1:30 until 5:00 Monday through Friday. All ticket sales are final.