The Egg
Robert Schlitt
The Great Easter Egg Hunt
by Ken Jones
Highlights
Synopsis
This comedy centers around an Annual Easter Egg Hunt.
Citizens vie for the ultimate prize attainable in Umatilla, Florida the Golden Egg.
Meanwhile Horseshoe and Clem Dumpling seek to avenge their shattered hopes of married bliss, the town flirt chases every man except for the one who is in love with her and two young lovers struggle to escape this small town.
Judge Pulander officiates, but is soon overwhelmed by apple and cypress bark cider.
The Rifle Association initiates a blood feud while the Women's Club fans the fire with gossip.
The Great Easter Egg Hunt is a comic journey through one day in an isolated town that reflects the greed, cowardice, regret, avarice, love, stupidity, hope, passion and drama of life in America.
Press Reviews
"Thursday night's sold-out crowd was treated to a raucous two hours of Ken Jones's The Great Easter Egg Hunt, a lively and irreverent send-up of small town Southern culture, as the zany residents of Umatilla, Florida continuously sabotage one another in their quest for a golden egg and the promise of prizes and the right to reign as king or queen over the town for the next year."
— Theatre Montgomery
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Helen Neeley the town gossip, president of the Umatilla P.T.A. |
| Faye Rumple Helen Neeley's faithful sidekick; spends most of her time shuttling any one of her fifteen children to various locations |
| Will Ferebee an intelligent young man; offered a full scholarship to Harvard University |
| Perry Monroe an attractive, smart young woman, whose goal in life is to leave Umatilla; has been dating Will since their freshman year of high school |
| Clem Dumpling a man who was raised by cows; a graduate of the third grade; has made his living by creating pine cone sculptures, which he sells at the local Alligator Farm and Reptile House |
| Horseshoe Dumpling second only to his brother in ignorance; said to be the philosopher of the family |
| Horvana Dwight the town flirt; a graduate of the Mount Dora Beauty and Charm School; a hardworking, career oriented business woman |
| Jed Perrine a very large, but sensitive man; said to have the "magic touch" when it comes to farming; has been romantically involved with Horvana and as such, very much the subject of town gossipm |
| Loretta Pikewater a woman who enjoys worrying; a former Miss Grapefruit, now happily married with one child, Ratius, who has been diagnosed as a hyperactive child |
| Lambie Monroe a kind and caring woman; a widow and graduate of Orange County Community College, now a nurse's aide and Umatilla's first volunteer firewoman; Perry's mother |
| Mr. Waxley president of the Umatilla Rifle Association; a tractor mechanic and the father of five boys; is not on speaking terms with two of the five |
| Mr. Parnell vice-president of the Umatilla Rifle Association; owns and runs Parnell's Meats and Seafood |
| Mr. Gilbert Parnell's faithful sidekick; supervises the municipal public pool during the summer months, and operates an adult bookstore one mile north of the Umatilla city line during the winter |
| Tomane Waxley third son of Mr. Waxley; artistically gifted but denied access to drawing and painting materials by his father |
| Judge Budford Pulander judge of the Umatilla Circuit Court; a fair and honest judge, unless he's been drinking |
Publication
The Great Easter Egg Hunt is a comedy play written by Ken Jones and published by Samuel French .
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