My Deah
by John Epperson

Highlights

Female

Male

Present Day Expandable Casting Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

In this outlandish re-working of Euripides' Medea, Gator Hedgepeth, a former Mississippi football star, plans to abandon his wife My Deah — an ex-beauty queen from Louisiana — and marry Simplicity Bullard, the daughter of the corrupt Mississippi governor.

My Deah's bridge-playing buddies show up to play their weekly card game.

Instead they get the domestic scoop from the touchy housekeeper Lillie V., and the physical education tutor of My Deah's sons, closeted homosexual Coach McCallister.

My Deah confronts her card-dealing friends as well as the Governor, and she lays her bloody plans.

Her vengefulness leads to the murders of trashy Simplicity and her father, and ultimately to the deaths of her own senseless sons, Skipper and Scooter.

Deus ex machina, faux-Greekstyle, enables My Deah to attempt getaway to anonymity in wild, inebriated, immediately pre- Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.

She hits the road, leaving Gator behind to live with the tragedy wrought by My Deah .

Press Reviews

"Classics scholars could learn a thing or two from Mr. Epperson's bawdy parody. Take that, Euripides."
— The New York Times (Critic's pick)

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Gator Hepgepeth Early 40s; My Deah's handsome, fit husband.	male	40s	Early 40s; My Deah's handsome, fit husband.
Mignon Mullen My Deah's bridge-playing crony (must be played by a male actor in female clothing).	female	—	My Deah's bridge-playing crony (must be played by a male actor in female clothing).
Lillie V. My Deah's slatternly, irascible housekepper (played by the same actor plauong My Deah).	—	—	My Deah's slatternly, irascible housekepper (played by the same actor plauong My Deah).
Coach Skipper and Scooter's tutor and football trainer; handsome and fit.	—	—	Skipper and Scooter's tutor and football trainer; handsome and fit.
Governor W.J. Bullard Of Mississippi 60; corrupt. (Also plays Rufus Lacy.)	—	—	60; corrupt. (Also plays Rufus Lacy.)
Simplicity Bullard 20; governor's trashy, party-girl daughter.	female	—	20; governor's trashy, party-girl daughter.
Rufus Lacy 60; owner of the New Orleans Times newspaper; commpassionate, benign.	—	—	60; owner of the New Orleans Times newspaper; commpassionate, benign.
My Deah Hepgepeth 40s; an angry housewife.	—	40s	40s; an angry housewife.