Doublewide, Texas
by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten, Jones Hope Wooten

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Highlights

120 mins Present Day Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: In this hilarious, fast-paced comedy, the inhabitants of one of the smallest trailer parks in Texas—four doublewides and a shed—are thrown for a loop when they realize the nearby town of Tugaloo is determined to annex them.

And it’s not as if they don’t already have enough to deal with.

Joveeta Crumpler has had it up to here, having been passed over again for a promotion at work.

On top of this, she has an ongoing battle to keep her feisty mother, Caprice, out of the local bar and worries that her good-ol’-boy brother, Baby Crumpler, is taking his participation in a womanless beauty pageant way too seriously.

Joveeta’s big-hearted best friend, Georgia Dean Rudd, is struggling to keep her diner and finances afloat, but she just can’t curb her impulse to take in every stray cat, possum, and armadillo that wanders by.

Then there’s Big Ethel Satterwhite, who’s nobody’s fool.

But tough as she is, she’s continually frustrated by her clients at Stairway To Heaven Retirement Village as well as her mule-headed husband, O.C., who shows far more affection for his BarcaLounger than he does for Big Ethel.

And all the residents are plagued by Haywood Sloggett, the curmudgeon from across the road, who loathes their “trailer-trash” ways, especially their keeping a life-size illuminated nativity scene up year ’round.

But these friends, enemies, and neighbors realize they’ll have to work together to defeat the encroaching annexation if they—and their way of life—have a snowball’s chance to survive being swallowed up by “the big guys.”

The rollicking mayhem of this flat-out funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy escalates as the residents attempt to secede from Texas, discover a traitor in their midst, and turn the tables in a surprising and side-splitting finale.

So grab your Stetson and come on over to Doublewide, Texas, where life is double the fun, double the joy, and where audiences double over with laughter!

Press Reviews

"A trailer park was never so much fun. And with a Texas twist, who could resist? The one-liners in the play Doublewide, Texas are worth savoring."

— Sun News Austin

"Sounds like a confusing rush of conflicting individual dramas – and it is – but Doublewide, Texas is easier to follow than you can imagine, and it’s one belly laugh after another. Even the corny jokes work since the premise is so ridiculous."

— Talkin Broadway

"Doublewide, Texas is a comedic farce, deliberately designed to be played over the top, and it reaches for the broadest laughs possible."

— RVArt Review

"Doublewide, Texas... delivers double the pleasure with sight gags as hilarious as the dialogue."

— The Gazette (Iowa)

Characters

Character
Georgia Dean Rudd

40s

Lark Barken

20s

Norwayne “Baby” Crumpler

40s

Haywood Sloggett

70s

Joveeta Crumpler

40s

Caprice Crumpler

mid-to-late 70s

Lomax Tanner

40s

Starla Pudney

40s

Big Ethel Satterwhite

60s

Publication

Year 2016
Binding Paperback
Pages 52
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822233633
ISBN-10 0822233630
LCC PS3560.O4927 D68 2016
DCC 812/.54

Doublewide, Texas is a American comedy play written by Jessie Jones and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2016).

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