“Dearly Beloveds” Original Play by Jessica Hoffmann Davis

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“My husband dead on a Thursday. His other wife comes on a Friday. Oh boy. Oh boy.” Dearly Beloveds is a play about secrets, betrayals, forgiveness, and love. Life-changing discoveries, uncovered at Jack Sunstein’s funeral, completely upend his family’s world. Outrage and hilarity rule as more surprises unfold and everyone fumbles to find a way forward. The local cast features Doreen Sheppard as Jack's rude and delightful widow, Jule Finley and Colleen Eliason as her life long friends, Rodney Martell as the dutiful son, and Ken Chapman as Jack’s law partner and friend. Writer and Director Jessica Hoffmann Davis, lives in Holderness, New Hampshire, where, since her retirement from the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she has been writing full time. At The Little Church Theater, she has put up three other hit plays, The Salon (2015), Houseguests (2013) and wRites of Reunion (2010) which was co-authored with Monique Devine.