DSU will be performing "Dearly Departed" by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones. Dearly Departed, set somewhere south of the Mason Dixon line, tells the story of father Turpin's funeral and its aftermath, not to mention the dizzying array of crazies who are attached to him. This husband and patriarch of the family was not exactly God-fearing, or even perhaps likable, and as a result his extended family has a variety of unexpected responses to his passing. When his wife, Raynelle, is asked by the preacher to describe her husband, the widow succinctly replies that Bud was "mean and surly."