Raise a glass to ‘The Savannah Sipping Society’

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People walk outside the front entrance to The Colonnade Catoosa Civic Center on the Benton Place Campus Thursday between Fort Oglethorpe and Ringgold. — Staff Photo by Meghan Brown / People walk outside the front entrance to The Colonnade Catoosa Civic Center on the Benton Place Campus Thursday between Fort Oglethorpe and Ringgold. Staff Photo by Meghan Brown / People walk outside the front entrance to The Colonnade Catoosa Civic Center on the Benton Place Campus Thursday between Fort Oglethorpe and Ringgold.

By Staff Report February 4, 2020 2 min read

The Colonnade Players will open “The Savannah Sipping Society” on Friday, Feb. 7, for six performances over two weekends at The Colonnade in Ringgold, Georgia.

Four Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by fate – and an impromptu happy hour. They decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life that they’ve lost through the years.

Randa, a perfectionist and workaholic, is struggling to cope with a surprise career derailment that reveals she has no life and no idea how to get one.

Dot, still reeling from her husband’s recent demise and the loss of their plans for an idyllic retirement, faces the unsettling prospect of starting a new life from scratch and all alone.

Earthy, boisterous Marlafaye, a good ol’ Texas gal, has blasted into Savannah in the wake of losing her cheating husband to a 23-year-old dental hygienist. The strength of her desire to establish a new life is equaled only by her desire to wreak a righteous revenge on her ex.