Greenville Technical College Theatre presents “A Tuna Christmas” by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Edward Howard with four performances the weekend of December 5-8.
It’s Christmas in the third-smallest town in Texas – and everyone in town seems to have a story and a spotlight in this comedy. Leading the hilarity, radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including the hot competition in the annual lawn-display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey’s production of A Christmas Carol is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills; Bertha Bumiller’s family is driving her crazy, and will the Christmas Phantom strike again?!
A cast of 12 GTC students plays multiple roles including Emma Dell Fletcher, a local Greenvillian who attended Riverside High School. She plays the gun shop owner Didi Snavely and the Tastee Kreme fry cook, Inita Goodwin. Asia Hopwood, originally from Stoke on Kent, England but who also attended Riverside High School, plays the artsy teenager Charlene Bumiller, the richest woman in town, Vera Carp, and the Tastee Kreme waitress.
Bradley Roberts, a transplant from Las Vegas, Nevada, is a military veteran who has made a living as a professional clown/magician. He will play radio disc jockey Arles Struvie, and the elderly Aunt Pearl. William Weiss, a Toledo, Ohio native who attended Wade Hampton High School, plays the overwrought wife and mother, Bertha Bumiller, and the “by the book” elderly city secretary, Dixie Dewberry.
Performances in the University Transfer Auditorium begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, December 5 through Saturday, December 7 and a matinee at 3 p.m. Sunday, December 8. The auditorium (Building 104, Room 136) is located on the Barton Campus, 506 S. Pleasantburg Dr. The play is produced by special permission of Samuel French, Inc., New York.
Admission is $5 for students (any school) and seniors (60+), and $10 for adults. Play is best suited for audiences ages 13 and older with parental guidance for those under 17.
To learn more about Greenville Technical College’s Speech Communication and Theatre department, visit www.gvltec.edu/speech/ or contact Dan Robbins at Dan.Robbins@gvltec.edu or (864) 250-8773.