Event Details - Department of Theater and Dance presents The Miss Firecracker Contest

"It's a comic volcano of a play, populated by offbeat, but vital, larger-than-life characters......" (The Hollywood Reporter).  The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the 4th of July.  Carnelle Scott (known as "Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest - hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory, but the unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children, complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain's eccentric brother, Delmount, to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans.  Yet somehow Carnelle perseveres!

TICKETS: SIUE Students free with a valid I.D.; Adults $12, Seniors $10, non-SIUE Students $10, SIUE Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Retirees $10

BOX OFFCE: Dunham Hall; 1st floor, Rm 1042B