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By Owen Crump
By arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, Inc.
Directed by Layne Taylor
Southern Exposure was first produced
at the Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas, in 1950, and opened on Broadway at the
Baltimore Theatre, New York City, September 26, 1950. Natchez Little Theatre
has presented Southern Exposure for the entertainment of visitors to Natchez
during the annual Spring Pilgrimage since 1963.
It is azalea season in
Natchez, Mississippi, and the annual pilgrimage of tourists are swarming
through the historic mansions. In Mayweather Hall, Penelope Mayweather, a
once beautiful Southern belle, is horrified by the tourists who are led
through her home by an energetic guide at fifty cents a head. But the money
isn't enough to keep Penelope from the clutches of those "damn Yankees" down
at the bank. Thus when a young author, John Salguod, turns up, she is
persuaded to take him in as a roomer. However, it develops that John is
visiting under an assumed name because he has written a book banned in
Natchez. The locals consider it a gross libel on their way of life, but it is
a best-seller everywhere else. Penelope's frantic efforts to keep him hidden
from her neighbors are frustrated when Carol, her soon-to-be-married, pretty
young cousin, comes to spend the night. When her parents discover she stayed
a second night, scandal looms. The irate parents, blaming Penelope, threaten
to take over Mayweather Hall, which they can do by forcing foreclosure through
the bank. But meantime John finds Penelope's diary which she wrote over a
period of forty years, giving embarrassing details about most of the town's
citizens. John's publisher arrives on the first morning of the Pilgrimage and
offers Penelope a fabulous sum for her memoirs and Mayweather Hall is out of
hock!
THE SETTING
The entire action takes place in an upstairs sitting room in Mayweather Hall, an
Antebellum mansion, in Natchez in the year, 1952.
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ACT ONE |
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Scene 1: |
Shortly after
noon in early Spring |
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Scene 2: |
About nine
o'clock that night |
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INTERMISSION: 15 minutes |
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ACT TWO |
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Scene 1: |
The next
morning |
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Scene 2: |
About nine
o'clock that night |
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ACT THREE |
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Eight o'clock the next morning |
You are invited to meet the cast immediately
following the performance in the Green Room.
Every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
and Sunday Evening at 8:00 p.m.,
during Natchez Spring Pilgrimage
March 13 - April 17, 2005
Natchez Little Theatre
319 Linton Ave - Natchez Mississippi
Reservations Call 601-442-2233 or
Toll Free- 877-440-2233
Special Student Matinees
available on Thursday and Friday performance days by prior arrangement.
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