Olive insists that Nancy made a mistake getting married. Olive comes downstairs and shows Pearl a photo of Barney, Roo, Nancy, and Olive drunk at an amusement park. The action opens with Bubba tying ribbons on candy canes in the living room (a tradition of the layoff season) while Pearl, dressed in her good black dress, reads a magazine. Bubba lives next door, and was only a small child when the layoff seasons began. Roo is dating Olive, and Barney usually dates Nancy, but this year Nancy has gotten married and abandoned the layoff season, so Olive has invited her co-worker Pearl as a companion for Barney. Every summer for the last sixteen years Barney and Roo have spent their “layoff season” (when they are released from their jobs cane-cutting for a few months) at Olive’s house, which is owned by her mother, Emma. The play begins with three women- Olive, Pearl, and Bubba (who is younger than the other two)-awaiting the arrival of Barney and Roo.
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