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Featuring: Peggy Droz, Wanda Steele, Camilla Millican, Cinny Strickland, and Erin O'Conner.
This touching comedy centers around five Southern women who became friends
on their college swim team. The group sets aside a long weekend every
August to recharge their relationships.
Free from husbands, kids and jobs,
they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to
catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives. “The Dixie Swim Club”
focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years.
Sheree, the spunky team captain, desperately tries to maintain her
organized and ‘perfect’ life, and continues to be the group’s leader.
Dinah, the wise-cracking overachiever, is a career dynamo. But her
victories in the courtroom are in stark contrast to the frustrations of her
personal life. Lexie, pampered and outspoken, is determined to hold on to
her looks and youth as long as possible. She enjoys being married – over
and over and over again. The self-deprecating and acerbic Vernadette, is
acutely aware of the dark cloud that hovers over her life, has decided to
just give in and embrace the chaos. And sweet, eager-to-please Jeri Neal
experiences a late entry into motherhood that takes them all by surprise.
As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on
one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the
challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, and aging) that life
flings at them. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in
the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of ‘teamwork’,
rally ‘round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in
a poignant and surprising direction.
“The Dixie Swim Club” is the story of
these five unforgettable women - a hilarious and touching comedy about
friendships that last forever…
The play will be directed by Deborah Kintzing, who has helmed several of
the Broach Theatre’s most popular successes including the recent hit, A
TUNA CHRISTMAS.