Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling
Tue 30 Sept
|Players Theatre
Beloved comedy-drama, which inspired the 1989 film of the same name, about the bond among a group of Southern women who frequent a local home salon in northwest Louisiana.
Time & Location
30 Sept 2025, 19:45 – 22:00
Players Theatre, Anfield Rd, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle SK8 5EX, UK
About the event
Directed by Sarah Doyle
Hilarious and touching, this classic and beloved play about six women is set in a beauty parlour in Louisiana. Through four scenes spanning three years the staff and customers engage in small-town gossip but we see a deep strength and purposefulness emerge when tragedies and dramas are overcome. As the title suggests, the female characters are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel.
The entire play takes place in the late 1980s, at Truvy's in-home beauty parlor in the fictional northwestern Louisiana parish of Chinquapin, where a group of women regularly gather.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.