Miss Witherspoon, a dark comedy by Christopher Durang, will be the spring theatrical production at Keuka College.

The play will be staged Thursday – Saturday, April 16-18 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in the Red Barn Theatre. A benefit performance will be Thursday, April 16 to help students attend the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Billsboro Winery will offer a free wine tasting the night of the benefit performance

Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Wenderlich, Miss Witherspoon is the story of middle-aged Veronica, who commits suicide, and the Christian secularists who reincarnate her. With the help of Maryamma, a young Hindu woman, a female Jesus, and a wizard suspiciously named Gandalf, Veronica must journey from here to eternity and back again to cleanse her “brown tweedy aura” and learn the necessity of reengaging with life.

Veronica, dubbed Miss Witherspoon in the netherworld, will eventually be reincarnated four times. She will learn that the purpose of reincarnation is to give her the opportunity to perfect herself.

Members of the cast include: Christin Greven (person in black), a senior management major from Pine City; Makenna Moon (person in black), a freshman political science and history major from Atlanta; Hilary Mills (person in black), a freshman adolescent mathematics/special education major from Auburn; Samantha Gavin (person in black), a freshman criminology/criminal justice major from Andover; Megan Morehouse (person in black), a freshman criminology/criminal justice major from Penn Yan; Sara Munio (Veronica), a junior adolescent mathematics/special education major from West Winfield; Octavia Cady (chicken, Jesus) a sophomore organizational communication major from Watkins Glen; Meghan Russell (Maryamma), a senior English major from Amsterdam; Amber Smith (mother one) a sophomore management major from Canandaigua; Patrick Caughill (father one, father two, and sleazy man), a sophomore English major from Buffalo; Karen Wright (teacher), a sophomore unified childhood/special education major from Chittenango; and Chris Russell (dog owner, Gandalf), a senior adolescent social studies/special education major from Youngstown. Kelsey Marquart, a freshman adolescent English/special education major, serves as stage manager.

Tickets are on sale at the Keuka College bookstore or http://www.fingerlakesart.org/ and are $4 for Keuka-affiliated persons; $7 for the general public.