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Georgia Ensemble Theatre's 'Swell Party' Heads into Final Weekend
You can still get tickets to several shows this weekend.
Georgia Ensemble Theatre will present the final showings of "Swell Party" by Atlanta playwright Topher Payne over this weekend, Jan. 24-27. The comedy exaggerates Southerners tendency to embellish stories. The show is described by GET below: Tobacco heir Smith Reynolds returns from a New York vacation to his North Carolina estate with a surprise souvenir: a wife. The new Mrs. Reynolds is a popular jazz singer, a dozen years older than Smith, and arrives with a carload of gin and a certifiably insane acting coach. The wedding party is flat-out ruined when the groom turns up dead. As the guests gather to reconstruct the evening’s events and try to solve the mystery, it becomes clear that for Southerners, the truth isn’t nearly as important …
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