Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, a comedy by Alan Ball, will be the spring theatrical production at Keuka College.

The play will be staged Thursday–Saturday, April 10-12, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 13 at 7 p.m. in the Red Barn Theatre.

Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Wenderlich, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress is an adult comedy that takes place during a wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tenn. estate.

Five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover that they all share common bond—beyond their bridesmaid dresses.

The women are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye.

Members of the cast include: Amber Smith (Frances), a freshman exploratory major from Canandaigua; Meghan Russell (Meredith), a junior English major from Amsterdam; Sara Munio (Trisha), a sophomore adolescent mathematics/special education major from West Winfield; Octavia Cady (Georgeanne), a sophomore organizational communication major from Watkins Glen; Christin Greven  (Mindy), a junior management major from Pine City; and Sean Scott (Tripp), a sophomore adolescent English education and English major from Rochester. Kevin Vogt, a freshman exploratory major from Murray Hill, N.J., serves as stage manager.

Tickets, $4 for Keuka students and $7 for all other tickets, are available online at www.genevarts.com and at the Keuka College bookstore in the Dahlstrom Student Center. 

-- Gretchen Parsells