Tagged as a "Southern-Fried Trailer Park Comedy!" authors Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten's Doublewide, Texas is director Cheryl Phillips's current offering for the Millbrook Community Players, Inc.
Filled with an assortment of eccentric characters living in or nearby a small trailer park community facing either annexation into a local township or losing their property, they band together to thwart those attempts and demonstrate that even the downtrodden can overcome corporate greed by relying on family, good sense, and righteousness.
Considering that so many people today, especially the poor and powerless, fall prey to the rich and powerful, there are lessons to be learned, even through a raucous comedy.
Formulaic in structure, and with every character's oddities in full view, some clever dialogue propels the outrageous plot's twists and turns. Ms. Phillips's ensemble cast inhabit the redneck silliness with uninhibited glee. -- Many of Millbrook's reliable veterans take the stage: Vicki Moses. Karla McGhee, Rae Ann Collier, John Collier, and Michael Snead are joined by Blair Berry, Mary Owen Wright, Shannon Hokum, and Josh Register to deliver brashness, bewilderment, cross-dressing, sexual innuendo, and a few surprises along the way.
On a set that hardly replicates a dilapidated trailer park [lengthy scene changes take us to a few locations that take place elsewhere], the numerous episodes push the mayhem to a satisfying conclusion.
We need a bit of levity today, and Doublewide, Texas fits the bill.
