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Last Resort Trailer Park

Presented by Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre at Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre

April 3-May 16, 2009

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By Kel Munger of the Sacramento News and Review: Combine a handful of talented local character actors with a light, character-based comedy and the result is this laughfest full of, well, character.Local playwright Laura Sheperd, who won an Elly Award for her drama Annie’s Story, tries her hand at comedy—and what a handful it turns out to be.

The residents of the Last Resort Trailer Park, a single-wide haven on the rough side of Winnemucca, Nev., attracts the rough-and-tumble sort of folks who didn’t quite have the luck for Las Vegas or Reno. In spite of the way most of them seem to enjoy having a brew and a blowout down at Bubba’s, the barbecue place on the highway, they don’t really cause much trouble. But strait-laced trailer-park manager Rhonda (Gloria Jones) does have plenty to look down her nose at, especially when Deputy Hank Trimble (Charley Cross) comes around asking questions about the live-in boyfriend of one of her tenants. Sheperd’s script presents a minor mystery—who was it that stole a truck and broke into a house on the nice side of town—as a means to unleash the sort of womanly friendship, laughter-through-tears comedy familiar to fans of plays and films like Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes. This is no comedy of manners, but rather a hoot at the lack of them, and further proof that local playwrights have at least as much to offer as our local actors.

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  Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre
  
  1901 P Street
  Sacramento, CA 95814
  
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  Tickets: $20 (Includes delicious desserts, coffee and tea)
  
  Info Phone: (916) 444-8209
  
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  Dates:
  April 3-May 16, 2009
  
  Times:
  Fri & Sat, curtain: 7:00pm
  Sun, curtain: 2:00pm
  
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  - Event Name: Last Resort Trailer Park
    "Excellent on all counts!"
    Review posted by: Janet Regan from Fair Oaks, CA, May 03, 2009
    
    We were invited to see this play with friends who had already seen it. That was a clue that it was good. We saw it, and my husband agreed it was the best play we'd seen in a long time. The actors... Expand
    
    We were invited to see this play with friends who had already seen it. That was a clue that it was good. We saw it, and my husband agreed it was the best play we'd seen in a long time. The actors were superb, and superbly cast. The story was great. The desserts were even great. I'd see it while you can! Collapse
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    "Jim Carnes SacBee gives Last Resort Trailer Park THREE STARS"
    Review posted by: Tom from Sacramento, Apr 06, 2009
    
    The Thistle Dew Theatre's Playwright's Workshop has another hit according to Jim's review. Kel Munger of the Sac News and Review thought so, too.
    
    The Thistle Dew Theatre's Playwright's Workshop has another hit according to Jim's review. Kel Munger of the Sac News and Review thought so, too.
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  - Event Name: Last Resort Trailer Park
    "Excellent on all counts!"
    Review posted by: Janet Regan from Fair Oaks, CA, May 03, 2009
    
    We were invited to see this play with friends who had already seen it. That was a clue that it was good. We saw it, and my husband agreed it was the best play we'd seen in a long time. The actors... Expand
    
    We were invited to see this play with friends who had already seen it. That was a clue that it was good. We saw it, and my husband agreed it was the best play we'd seen in a long time. The actors were superb, and superbly cast. The story was great. The desserts were even great. I'd see it while you can! Collapse
  - Event Name: Last Resort Trailer Park
    "Jim Carnes SacBee gives Last Resort Trailer Park THREE STARS"
    Review posted by: Tom from Sacramento, Apr 06, 2009
    
    The Thistle Dew Theatre's Playwright's Workshop has another hit according to Jim's review. Kel Munger of the Sac News and Review thought so, too.
    
    The Thistle Dew Theatre's Playwright's Workshop has another hit according to Jim's review. Kel Munger of the Sac News and Review thought so, too.
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