The Miss Firecracker Contest

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Director: Joe Wallace, Asst. to the Director: Kathy Castro, Stage Manager: Pat Taylor

Cast: Carnelle: Christina Wolfskehl, Popeye: Kayrn Valcourt, Elain: Stacy L. Cabral, Delmount: David Faria, MacSam: Joseph Luca, Tessy: Shandy Monte

The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Crimes of the Heart brings us another explosively funny play. Carnelle is furiously rehearsing for the Miss Firecracker Contest, which is being held on the 4th of July. Her hope of leaving the small town of Brookhaven in a blaze of glory is complicated by the arrival of her cousin, Elain, a former Miss Firecracker, and Delmount, Elain's eccentric brother who has recently released from a mental institution. Add to the mixture a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye and several other nutty characters and you end up with a wonderfully comic play full of suspense, conflict, and hope.

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