Video Preview: Steel Magnolias at The Stables Theatre in Hastings

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This funny and touching play set in the late 1980s in a beauty parlour in deepest Louisiana. It explores beautifully the relationships between friends and family through witty banter and gossip.

Ultimately, through tragedy, we see their true tenderness towards each other.

The adaptation of the play to a film in 1989 was a huge popular success.