North Georgia Community Players will present The Red Velvet Cake War, a delightful new down-home comedy written by playwrights Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten and directed by NGCP artistic director Sue Boshart, with Assisting Director Sharon Purdy, on March 23, 24, 25 and 30, 31 and April 1^st in 2012.

According to the playwrights’ website:

“In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins — Gaynelle, Peach and Jimmie Wyvette — could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion.  Their outrageous antics have set tongues wagging in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out.

“Having ‘accidentally’ crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s girlfriend’s doublewide, is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, the saucy number-one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it’s time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the roughhewn store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor the affections of Sweetgum’s newest widower.

“But the cousins can’t back out of the reunion now. It’s on and Gaynelle’s hosting it; Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist. Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season.

“Things spin hilariously out of control when a neighbor’s pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed suitor shows up to declare his love and a shocking high-stakes wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake. As this fast-paced uproarious romp barrels toward its surprising climax, you’ll wish your own family reunion was this much fun!”