IF YOU GO
• What: “A Tuna Christmas.”• When: 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9 and 14-16.• Where: Dalton Little Theatre, 210 N. Pentz St., Dalton, Ga.• Admission: $15 adults, $12 seniors/members, $10 students ages 13-18 or college, $5 children ages 12-under.• Phone: 706-226-6618.• Website: daltonlittletheatre.com.
Audience members will likely leave “A Tuna Christmas” at the Dalton Little Theatre laughing uproariously, but they also could be thinking how much their neighbor is like Joe Bob Lipsey or how closely their aunt resembles Inita Goodwin.
“You will meet people you know,” says director Jerry Draper, who along with fellow actor Randy Forester, will play more than 20 characters in the show. “Randy and I have based characters on our mothers, other family members [and] people we’ve met in theater.”
Not that you will have personally met the two actors’ family members, but the characters might just resemble people you know.
“A Tuna Christmas,” the second in a series of comedic plays set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas — “Greater Tuna” was the first — is both a commentary on and a satire of small-town Southern life and attitudes, according to a Dalton Little Theatre news release.