Tammy Waldrop will probably be on pins and needles until next Thursday

night.

Coweta's newest playwright will finally get to see her play, "Keeping

Dixie," performed on the stage at Southside Theater Guild in Fairburn.

"She's really excited about it," said director Heather

May.

The story revolves around three character, Agnes, her mentally-handicapped

daughter Dixie and Dixie's son, David.

"David is very disdainful of his mother's handicap, since he

is a straight A student," May said.

David meets his father, who is a very succesful attorney, and is immediately

drawn to him because of his success. But in the play, just as in life,

things are not always as they seem.

May said the theater company gets several locally submitted plays each

year, but this is the first one the theater decided to produce.

"It was just the right one for us. We really liked the story and

the characters," she said.

May said Waldrop has had one other play produced for a benefit, called "Buff,

the Vampire Slayer," but this is the first of her plays to receive

a full-scale production.

The play opens Thursday at the Fairburn playhouse and runs Thursdays-Saturday

for three weeks. All shows are at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10 on Thursdays

and $12 for adults on Friday and Saturday. Student tickets are $10 on Fridays

and Saturdays. To order tickets, call 770-969-0956 or order on the Web

site at www.stgplays.com .