About the play (by Audra dePrisco)

Murder in the Magnolias, a “farce of Southern proportions,” is the work of Tim Kelly, a prolific playwright best known for his stage adaptations of well-known fiction. He pays homage to the Southern school of writing in this piece, borrowing freely from the works of Tennessee Williams, Margaret Mitchell and others.

The play takes place at Belle Acres, a run-down plantation in Tudball County. When the owner of the plantation, Colonel Rance Chickenwing mysteriously passes on, the remaining family gathers at the plantation for the reading of the Colonel’s will. There’s the Colonel’s sister, Amanda Chickenwing, a daffy gardener whose plants have minds of their own, Bubba Kamrowski, a bowling ball juggler, Thornbird Chickenwing III, a poet with an identity crisis, and Blanche DuBlank, a southern belle with an enthusiasm for glass figurines. Add to that a slovenly housekeeper named Jezebel, an aging actress whose career has hit the skids and her personal secretary, a public works engineer who’s too smart for his own good, a 400 pound sheriff on a power trip, a vodoo witch, a buried treasure, and a hurricane named Randall and you’ve got a fast-paced, zany comedy that’s sure to leave the audience spellbound.

“A funny and clever spoof” ~ Texas Theatre Week