Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at Spotlighters Theatre

Five Women Wearing the Same DressDuring 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 brides 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 quite different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent, and touching celebration of the womens spirits.

Authors

• Alan Ball