Drama

Capital High School Playmakers Present:

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

The close-knit women at Truvy's Beauty Salon, the unofficial hub of Chinquapin La., have lots of time to gossip. Consequently, visitors to the salon get more than a wash and cut. The wise-cracking Truvy, with the help of her new glamour technician Annelle, dispenses shampoo with liberal doses of free advice and gossip to the town's curmudgeon, Ouiser; an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, and the local town social worker, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby, is on the verge of marriage.

Alternately hilarious and touching, the play focuses on the comraderie of these six Southern women who talk, gab, gossip, chitchat, needle and harangue each other through the best of times-and cry, caress, comfort and repair one another through the worst. Pushing laughter and pain together, Steel Magnolias pulls tears from even the most cynical eyes.

The women at Truvy's beauty parlor are the steel magnolias of the title: Southern belles, flowery on the outside, but strong enough inside to survive any challenge, many of which are presented through the course of the narrative.