‘Dixie Swim Club’ opens Derby Dinner’s new season
The Dixie Swim Club, which runs from May 25 to July 3 at the Derby Dinner Playhouse, follows the lives and enduring friendship of five young women who met on their college swim team.
Each summer the five Southern women meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks for a girls-only weekend. The play reveals four of those weekends during a 33-year span.
Sheree, the energetic and courageous team captain, urgently tries to preserve her organized and "perfect" life as the group's leader. Dinah, the witty highflyer, is a career dynamo. But her successs in the legal field of battle contrast to the disappointments of her personal life. Lexie, spoiled and forthright, is committed to retain her physical beauty and youth as long as possible. She enjoys being married--repeatedly. The modest and caustic Vernadette, acutely sensitive of the dark cloud that lingers over her life, surrenders to the chaos. And sweet, eager-to-please Jeri Neal experiences a tardy ingress into motherhood that takes them all by surprise.
The comic play was penned by the writing trio of Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, authors of Dearly Beloved, Christmas Belles, Southern Hospitality and The Hallelujah Girls. Dearly Departed was made into the 2001 film Kingdom Come.
Tickets cost $33 to $42, depending on day and time. Tickets are available online or by calling (812) 288–8281.
Posted by Ivonne Rovira
