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Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling

directed by Rodney Tow



24th to 28th April 2007
Théâtre National du Luxembourg 

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We meet the Steel Magnolias in Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in 1980s Louisiana. M'Lynn and Shelby are at Truvy's to get their hair done for Shelby's wedding. "Just the sweetest thing," Annelle Depuy Desoto (who may or may not be married because her marriage may not be legal) is introduced to Truvy's customers as her new beauty technician. While in the chairs, the sour-tempered Ouiser Boudreaux shows up and entertains the assemblage with her barbs. It seems that the only one of the group who truly understands Ouiser is Clairee who is recently widowed and looking for a diversion. As she says, "If you can't find anything good to say about anybody, come sit by me." Filled with humor and heartbreak, these "Steel Magnolias" make us laugh and cry as the realities of their lives in tiny Chiquapin Parish unfold.

New World Theatre Club

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