A strange bird-like woman approaches an old house at the edge of an ancient swamp in Sugar Bean, Florida. Inside the woman's feather-covered overnight case is a recent edition of the lurid supermarket tabloid, "The Weekly World News". The bold headline reads:
ALIENS LAND IN FLORIDA SWAMP!
SUGAR BEAN WOMAN SAYS "THEY WILL RETURN"!
Mormon sisters Faye and Willie Mae Nettles return home to their ramshackle swamp dwelling after a disastrous daytrip to Disney World. Willie is deeply distressed at having lost her prized Eva Gabor wig on Space Mountain and places the blame squarely on sister Faye's shoulders.
As Faye hurries to finalize preparations for the return of the "space people", Willie laments the fact that today's calamity is only the latest in a long string of Nettles family tragedies.
A disturbance in the sugarcane field lures the sisters outside to investigate. On the porch, Faye recalls how "Papa Fate" claimed to have witnessed the dead walk through Sugar Bean on a similar night many years before. A frightened Willie Mae clutches her "Book of Mormon" as Faye bravely descends the steps of the porch.
The ornithic stranger suddenly appears out of the darkness of Buster Swamp, setting in motion a chain of extraordinary events. Lies begin to unravel and the truth is revealed as "The Sugar Bean Sisters" hatch a diabolical plot to ensure the aliens' return.
This is the night they will make contact.
"Oh, Faye... seems like we're just getting to know one another again and you're going off with the Martians."
- Miss Videllia Sparks
(Nisa Davis Hayden as "Miss Videllia Sparks" & Nancy Madden as "Faye Clementine Nettles" in the Studio Theatre production of "The Sugar Bean Sisters" - Production directed by Jacqueline Schultz. Photo by Jill Wagner - "Sacramento Bee") |
