She’s Back! ‘Dixie’s Tupperware Party’ shows what happens when Southern charm and plastic meet
Through April 20 @ Garner Galleria TheatreWednesday through Saturday, evenings at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday Matinees at 2 p.m.
The fast-talking Tupperware sales woman Dixie Longate, hits the Garner Galleria Theatre selling plastic crap and drinking all the while.
“Dixie’s Tupperware Party” deliciously combines audience participation with improve, leaving audiences rolling on the floor laughing.
As Longate shows off all her favorite Tupperware pieces, which are on sale after the show, she also tells you some of their more unconventional uses. Her cake carriers can also hold Jell-O shots and her Pick-A-Deli container lets you soak fruits in vodka without getting it all over your fingers.
In between the sales pitch, Longate talks about her start in Tupperware, her dreams of being the best seller and of course about the Tupperware Party founder Brownie Wise.
Wise is Longate’s idol. A woman who stood up to the oppression of women after World War II and kept her own in business.
Although for the most part, Longate keeps the humor going, there are moments of morale in the show. Her descriptions of Wise is her way of letting women in the audience know that they can always prove themselves worthy. But the laughs stop — almost entirely — when Longate describes an abusive relationship with an ex-husband and how it led her to discover the worth in her own life. After that, Longate is quick to tell the audience that they all matter.
The audience participation is crucial to the improve Longate does surrounding her Tupperware products. Her auctioneer style of talking helps confuse the volunteers she picks to help demonstrate items like the can opener — or as Longate calls it the closet thing to baby Jesus this Earth is ever going to have.
Longate is a Southern ball of charm ready to arm the audience with their own selection of Tupperware.
