Plays - Upcoming Events
June 02- 05: Busybody
This hillarious play centers on a voluble cleaning worman who keeps telling the cops how to mind their business and who steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch. She lives in the basement of the office building she cleans and one night finds a body. By the time the police arrive, there is no body and no evidence. The wrong alarms are sent out, murdered men turn up alive, and the whole thing is chalked up to the cleaning womans imagination until an unidentified body is discovered on a distant hill and the cleaning woman uncovers more evidence in the course of her duties.
Is this the company owner staging his own murder? Or did he kill his wife's lover? Is the lover a firm employee or someone else? Where do the two female assistants fit in? What is the wife withholding? A thousand laughs await you as the Ruffin Theater presents this comedic mystery.
October 14- 16: Scandal at Hampton Estates
To impress her snobby friends and to celebrate her new appointment to the city's Social Calendar Chairperson, Ivana Hampton has planned a fabulous costume ball and has invited all the city's upper crust citizens, including the mayor, to the Hampton Estate. Even a TV society reporter arrives to cover this important social event. The party goes smoothly at first for Ivana until a throng of hick relatives unexpectedly show up, Ivana's mother starts talking to her imaginary friend, a hobo crashes the party, and Ivana's elderly uncle arrives dressed as Hugh Hefner and introduces everyone to his 24-year-old fiancee.
Then things really go downhill when the cook fails to prepare any food, the lights go out, the security guard gets murdered, the famous Hampton heirloom is stolen, and a ransom note demanding $10 million dollars is discovered. When two detectives arrive to investigate the murder and announce that no one can leave the estate, the hungry guests find themselves trapped at what could be the worst party in the city's history!
December 1- 4: The Rednecks Undo Christmas
Celebrate the holidays with the Bubbas, a lovable redneck family, as they head even further south for another hilarious adventure! Fleeing West Virginny's winter weather, the Bubbas have set up camp at a rundown trailer park in southern Alabama.
But just as the Bubbas are getting ready to celebrate Christmas Eve with a pot of polecat gumbo, a family of snobby snowbirds arrive in their $10-million-dollar RV and try to force the Bubbas out of the trailer park. And add to the madness, Bubba Santa Claus arrives on the scene frantically searching for Rudolph who has mysteriously disapeared.
To aid in the search, Bubba Santa hires the Blubber Team, the "best" covert paramilitary group in the South to find Rudolph in time for Christmas. But when reindeer antlers and a reindeer leg turn up, it doesn't look good for poor Rudolph, and Bubba Santa finds himself grounded on Christmas Eve, unable to deliver presents. However, with a little southern ingenuity, Bubba Santa finds a new way to deliver gifts- an RV with a global positioning system!