Deliver Us from Mama!
by Jones Hope Wooten

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Highlights

Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Flexible Cast Size Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Mama’s back – so chaos can’t be far behind!

This rip-roaring, hilarious, high-octane race to beat the stork begins when Walker Sprunt’s wife Hayley goes into labor with their first child.

The problem?

She’s in Alabama and he's in L.A., trying his best to get through a surprise visit from his meddling mother and his bossy big sister Savannah when he gets the call.

Unfortunately, an air traffic controllers’ strike has just begun across the nation and Walker is at a loss for what to do.

His Mama, as usual, is not.

And when she proclaims “family road trip!,” Walker knows disaster can’t be far behind.

And is he ever right – as the clock ticks, Mama and her squabbling offspring jump in a car and sprint across 2,000 miles of America and through its most unbelievably eccentric and colorful communities – and comedic chaos follows them everywhere.

Despite experiencing zany alien encounters near Roswell, New Mexico, witnessing an uproarious last-minute wedding with off-their-rockers relatives, participating unwillingly in a high-speed police chase across Texas, surviving a churning river on a daiquiri party barge, and even escaping a wild New Orleans Mardi Gras night court, this exuberantly desperate trio drive on, determined to make it to Alabama before the new baby is born.

And heaven help anyone who gets in Mama’s way, because she WILL be in Birmingham in time for the birth of her first grandchild!

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"Kooky characters... A little zany. A little out there."

— Montgomery Advertiser

Characters

Character
SAVANNAH HONEYCUTT
NORLEEN SPRUNT
DENTON CROCKER
WALKER SPRUNT
HAYLEY SPRUNT (V.O.)
TAMARIND
ANDRE
ARIANA
RUDY EARL
LEON
REMA JEAN
COUSIN CHICKEN
ARDALE
UNCLE FERD
SUEBRENDA LUTZ
ORLAN HINKLE
JOHN CURTIS BUNTNER
REECE
FLEETA
MARIQUE TATUM
JUDGE HUBBARD
DUVAL
LEONARD
MR. TOLIVER
NURSE KELLY
+ 1 more characters

Publication

ISBN-13 9780822240716
ISBN-10 0822240718

Deliver Us from Mama! is a comedy play written by Jones Hope Wooten and published by Dramatists Play Service .

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