Rex's Exes
by Jones Hope Wooten

Off-Broadway
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Highlights

120 mins Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

The Verdeen cousins of Sweetgum, Texas are teetering on the brink of disaster again!

Gaynelle isn’t accepting the fact she’s turning 50, but two of her cousins are still determined to throw her a surprise birthday party she doesn’t want.

In a startling twist, plans for her surprise party shift to a hastily thrown-together family funeral instead.

The hilarity escalates when a husband who has recently been declared dead unexpectedly returns, revealing a romantic link to each of his wife’s cousins.

Then a Cajun bounty hunter who’s tracking the husband crashes the funeral, and a jilted bride holds the family hostage with a loaded paintball gun.

All the while, the cousins struggle to avoid their bitter aunt, who’s hell-bent on cracking the ranks of the elite Daughters of the Nation of Texas and exacting revenge on the cousins before the dirt hits the casket.

As the outrageous complications of this ferociously funny comedy explode into chaos, you’ll find yourself hoping your next family celebration – birthday, wedding or funeral – is even half this much fun!

The play is the second in the Verdeen Cousins Texas Trilogy by the authors, following The Red Velvet Cake War and preceding Last Round-Up of the Guacamole Queens .

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"You won’t want to miss this zany comedy."

— Sun Lakes Splash

Characters

Character
Gaynelle Verdeen

50

Jimmie Wyvette Verdeen

40s

Peaches Verdeen Belrose

Late 40s

Lamerle Verdeen Minshew

Late 60s to 70

Aubrey Verdeen

Late 80s

Bitsy Hargis

Late 40s

Theodore Rexford Belrose

50

Gentle Harmony

40s to 50s

Mama Doll Hargis

80s to 120

Marlissa Crutchfield

40s

Wild Bill Boudreaux

50s

Cee Cee Windham

Late 40s to 50

Publication

ISBN-13 9780822227113
ISBN-10 0822227118

Rex's Exes is a comedy play written by Jones Hope Wooten and published by Dramatists Play Service .

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