Greater

By Jaston Williams, Ed Howard, and Joe Sears

Directed by Thomas La Foe

Featuring Sean Dyess and Paul Ruff

Thursday, January 11, 2024
Starkville Preview Performance – The Playhouse on Main

Saturday, January 13, 2024
Mississippi Theatre Association Festival – MGCCC Harrison County Campus

Thursday, March 14, 2024
Southeastern Theatre Conference Festival – Murphy High School Performing Arts Building, Mobile, Alabama

Middle-of-nowhere Texas comes to wacky, darkly comic life in Greater Tuna, written by Jaston Williams, Ed Howard, and Joe Sears. This broad, side-splitting play takes satirical aim at the off-kilter inhabitants (men, women, children, and animals) of rural Tuna, Texas – pointedly the state's third-smallest town – all played by two actors (Sean Dyess and Paul Ruff) who change characters, voices, and costumes at breakneck speed.

Starkville Community Theatre presented Greater Tuna as its 2024 competition show. At MTA, SCT Best Production and advanced to perform at the Southeastern Theatre Association Conference Festival, held in March in Mobile, Alabama. During MTA, Paul Ruff won Outstanding Performance in a Lead Role, Sean Dyess won Outstanding Achievement in Acting, Chris Harper won Outstanding Costume Design, and Thomas La Foe won Outstanding Technical Achievement and Outstanding Direction. At SETC, Sean won an All Star Cast achievement in acting award.

Click here to see a copy of the Greater Tuna program.

Click here to see a copy of the Greater Tuna poster.

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