The Curlew Creek Theater — Wes Boyd

Brett Wickwire, substitute dairy farm milker and substitute teacher, would rather be a theater actor, even though he knows he needs to grow up and accept a real job somewhere soon. The market is tight for fulltime teaching jobs and no way does he want to be a fulltime milker. He talks his way into a dinner theater startup for the summer and brings along Meredith VanArnhem, an actress he's worked with before. There are problems, but the big one for Brett is that this job is only for the summer, and what can he do afterward? He does find a girlfriend among the actresses â€" no not Meredith, who's a hard-core lesbian, but another girl, Kellye Ginther â€" and there's another problem, because she's still in school at a college not close by. How can Brett continue that relationship and continue acting, even if it's only sideline, and still make a living?