Due to modern videography techniques, the various characters portrayed by Sears and Williams were able to be seen en masse for the first time. Williams and Sears regularly tour the country to perform all four plays, with Howard directing.Īn HBO Special of Greater Tuna, produced by Embassy Television and Norman Lear, was aired in 1984.
Duggan produced national tours of "Greater Tuna", "A Tuna Christmas" and "Red, White & Tuna" for twenty-six years. Vincent Summer Theatre produced the play in 2000, and No Name Players produced it in 2002. Greater Tuna debuted in Austin, Texas, in the fall of 1981, and had its off-Broadway premiere in 1982. The plays are notable in that two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of both genders and various ages. Of the four plays, Greater Tuna is the darkest in tone, as it follows the news of the death (and possible murder) of Judge Buckner.
The plays are at once an affectionate comment on small-town, Southern life and attitudes but also a withering satire of same.
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The series was written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. Greater Tuna is the first in a series of four comedic plays (followed by A Tuna Christmas, Red, White and Tuna, and Tuna Does Vegas), each set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state. Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed HowardĪ Tuna Christmas, Red, White and Tuna, and Tuna Does Vegas Jaston Williams and Joe Sears as Vera Carp & Pearl Burras, 2009