FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS Opens Tonight!

Written by Alan Ball, who created 'Six Feet Under' and won an Oscar for the 'American Beauty' screenplay, the 1993 work is set at a society wedding in Knoxville, Tenn.During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in wickedly funny, irreverent and touching ways.

For one week only, ShenanArts will perform "Five Women Wearing The Same Dress" at The nTelos Theatre, 300 Churchville Ave, Staunton, VA. 24401

Cast:
Frances..............Savhanna Jones
Meredith............Ashley Showalter
Georgeanne........Leslie Scott-Jones
Mindy.................Jenny Howard
Trisha.................Jennifer Jones
Tripp..................Scott Woofter

PRODUCTION:
Director: Jacquie Patteson
Assistant Director: Diana Black
Producer: Anne Taetzsch Fitzgerald
Technical Director: Tom Kernan
Stage Manager: Brandon Cline-Taskey
Sound Design : Cori McDaniel
Set Design: Patrick Smith
Set Realization: Greg Beam & Morgan Alberts Smith
Props: Steven Altis
Reece Middleton: Hair and Makeup Design

For more information, please visit: www.shenanarts.org

September 8-11
ONE WEEK ONLY
Thursday - Saturday at 7:00pm
Sunday Matinee at 3:00pm

Tickets can be booked:
(1) Online through Vendini ~ www.shenanarts.org
(2) Box office hours - Wed. 1:30-5:30 & Fri. 10:30-2:30 | 540.712.0001
(3) Downtown at Black Swan Books and Music | 1 E. Beverley Street

ShenanArts nTelos Theatre at Gypsy Hill Place
300 Churchville Avenue, Staunton, Va.