The Renaissance Guild, San Antonio’s Premiere Black Theatre Company,
Concludes their 7th season with the comedy “Dearly Departed”
Written by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones
Directed by Diane Malone
Dates: July 11, 2008 to July 27, 2008
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening shows at 8 pm
Sunday Matinee at 4 pm
General Admission $18
Discounts for Military and Students $15
Seniors $13
SATCO and ATAC members $10
Cash or Check ONLY
Just $10 for everyone on Thursday evenings!
For more information call (210) 656-0349
or visit THE RENAISSANCE GUILD HERE
If you like the film “Kingdom Come,” you’ll love the play it’s based on…
In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin’s other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.