A COMEDY IN 2 ACTS—3 MEN, 4 WOMEN

PREMIERING JANUARY 2013 AT GEORGIA ENSEMBLE THEATRE

It’s 1932, and 20 year-old orphaned tobacco heir Smith Reynolds has returned to Winston-Salem from his New York vacation with a surprise souvenir: a wife.

The new Mrs. Reynolds is notorious Broadway star Libby Holman. She’s a dozen years older than Smith, and arrives with a carload of gin and an acting coach who is quite possibly insane. A wedding party is thrown to introduce Libby to society, but it’s flat-out ruined when the groom turns up dead.

When the guests are gathered to reconstruct the evening’s events, they fail spectacularly, which shouldn’t be a surprise. For Southerners, the truth isn’t nearly as important as a good story.