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Potato Gumbo
“You don’t quit having dreams because you get old.”
A touchingly honest and zany look at aging, “Potato Gumbo” tells the poignant story of Gretchen and Thomas, her dream, and the adult children who walk the delicate line of parenting their parents.
In the play Gretchen could create the ideal gumbo recipe utilizing the unlikely ingredient of potato if she could only get from her Central Texas “active senior living” community to the famed New Orleans School of Cooking. Fellow retiree Thomas, already caught by her whimsical charms and light-fingered ways, is soon drawn into her off-beat schemes. Their plan, a late night, impromptu road trip to the Big Easy, has been aborted with their unfortunate return back home under police escort.
Throw in an overbearing daughter hell-bent on saving Gretchen from herself, Thomas’s supportive son, a couple of helpful and hilarious friends and a dictatorial manageress, and you have a recipe for a very real and gently comic serving of the daunting challenges of getting older.
Jean Ciampi is a playwright, freelance writer, humorist, Dramatists Guild of America member, passport holder, scuba diver, actress, baseball fan, director, Texan, humorist, dog lover and cilantro hater. She was mentored by Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock and is a member of the 2022 Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. Her first play, “Potato Gumbo,” written in Saudi Arabia, won a Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence. Her plays and shorts have been produced internationally.
“Potato Gumbo” features a cast and crew of local artists including director Liz Whittemore and actors Christina Augello, Ruthi Engelke, Mychal Evenson, Tasheena Evenson, Scott “Q” Marcus, Cathryn Noel-Veatch and Arnold Waddel with lighting design by Jaiden Clark.
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