Swamp Romp

By Burton Bumgarner
7 m, 9 w, 6 flexible
Eldridge Plays and Musicals

Life is anything but dull in the Great Okeeadokia Swamp. At Lester’s Bog Mart Convenience Store, locals gather to purchase supplies, check out video rentals (a wide selection of three) or try Lester’s delicious “Almost Fresh Catfish” or “Kind of Fried Chicken.” The local book club has been working on “War and Peace” for months, and they’re up to page 5. Young local resident Everett Mudd is trying to make a low-budget independent horror film which he wants to enter in the Sundown Film Festival. Five biology students become lost in the swamp when their professor is paralyzed after being bitten by the toxic Okeeadokia toad. The students, all from the big city, learn the hard way that nature isn’t always kind. Add a trio of travelers whose car breaks down in the swamp, the laziest volunteer fire department in history, and some really scary reptiles and we have swamp life at its silliest. Full evening.