Doin' Time at the Alamo

by Mary Hanes
Directed by Jim Burton

April 15, 2005 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 16, 2005 8:00 PM
Sunday, April 17, 2005 3:00 PM

Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:00 PM
Friday, April 22, 2005 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:00 PM

It's a hot July weekend at the Alamo, a woebegone motel that is directly across the street from a federal penitentiary in Texas. In this warm comedy, seven characters "do time" between visits with loved ones in prison. They play cards, argue, order out for moo shu shrimp, plan a wedding and dream of love. At the Alamo, these prisoners of love take a final stand against loneliness and ultimately find freedom. Characters include the motel owner who has been unable to escape from the Alamo since his father died in prison, a tough-talking New Yorker engaged to a two-timing mobster, her reluctant body guard, the dental hygienist who loves the bodyguard, her mother (a devotee of the card game rummy), a seventy-year old woman who believes in numerology and the letters of the twenty year old prisoner she plans to marry this July 4th weekend, and the wife whose yuppie husband has lied to the Feds and to her.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.